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.
MITSKII don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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There’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.
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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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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 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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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