I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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 remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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