Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
MITSKII was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
More Mitski Quotes
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I 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.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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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.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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