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.
MITSKII hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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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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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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