I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKII guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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.
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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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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 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.
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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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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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