I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKII hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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