I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
MITSKII hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
More Mitski Quotes
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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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