I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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 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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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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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 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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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