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.
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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 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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