Mitski Quotes

Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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 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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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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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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