Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKII could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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