I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
MITSKIYou can never learn enough about music.
More Mitski Quotes
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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 care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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