It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKITour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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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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 always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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