On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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