Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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