It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKII don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
More Mitski Quotes
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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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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.
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