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!’
MITSKII don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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 really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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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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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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