I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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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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