I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
MITSKII think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
More Mitski Quotes
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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