It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
MITSKII think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I’m not an innovator.
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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 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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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