It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKIGrowing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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 try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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