I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKII would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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