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.
MITSKIOftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
More Mitski Quotes
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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 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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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