I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKIMusic was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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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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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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 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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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