When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
MITSKII don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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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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