I’m not an innovator.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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 think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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