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.
MITSKITour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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 never learn enough about music.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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