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.
MITSKII would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
More Mitski Quotes
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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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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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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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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 want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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