I think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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 think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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.
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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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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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