I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
MITSKII try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
More Mitski Quotes
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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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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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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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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