All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKII have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’m not an innovator.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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