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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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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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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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 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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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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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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