I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
MITSKIIt would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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