I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKII think music is supposed to be shared.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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 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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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