It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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’m not an innovator.
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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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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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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.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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