I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
MITSKII was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
More Mitski Quotes
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I’m not an innovator.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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