Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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 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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I 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.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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 care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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