I’m punk, but I love gold.
MITSKIThere’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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 really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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 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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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