When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
MITSKII feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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