When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
MITSKIWhen you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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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 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 hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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When 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.
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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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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 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 stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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