What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKITour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
More Mitski Quotes
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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 hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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