When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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 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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