Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
MITSKIIn 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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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 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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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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