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.
MITSKIYou 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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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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’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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