I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
MITSKIWhen you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
More Mitski Quotes
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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