When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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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 it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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