There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
MITSKIWhen someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
More Mitski Quotes
-
-
I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
MITSKI -
Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
MITSKI -
I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKI -
Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
MITSKI -
When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKI -
I 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.
MITSKI -
I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
MITSKI -
Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKI -
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
MITSKI -
I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
MITSKI -
I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
MITSKI