I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
MITSKII don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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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 want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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