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.
MITSKII guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
More Mitski Quotes
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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 couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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