With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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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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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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