I think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKIWith 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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 understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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