You can never learn enough about music.
MITSKIWhen you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
More Mitski Quotes
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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 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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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