I’m not an innovator.
MITSKIOn tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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