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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More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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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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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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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