I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
MITSKII don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
More Mitski Quotes
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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.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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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 remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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