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.
MITSKIYou can never learn enough about music.
More Mitski Quotes
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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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 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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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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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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