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 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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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 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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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