I don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKII don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
More Mitski Quotes
-
-
I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKI -
I think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
MITSKI -
I’m not an innovator.
MITSKI -
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKI -
I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
MITSKI -
What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKI -
When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
MITSKI -
I 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.
MITSKI -
When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKI -
I’m punk, but I love gold.
MITSKI -
I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
MITSKI -
All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKI -
The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
MITSKI -
I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
MITSKI -
I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
MITSKI -
A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
MITSKI -
When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKI