I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
MITSKIOften I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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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 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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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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