What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKIIt’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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I’m not an innovator.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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 don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 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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