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.
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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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 wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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