I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
MITSKII hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
More Mitski Quotes
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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