When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
MITSKIAs a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
More Mitski Quotes
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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