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.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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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 feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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