My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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’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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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 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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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