I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
MITSKII’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.
More Mitski Quotes
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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 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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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 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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