I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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More Mitski Quotes
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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 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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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