People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKII don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
More Mitski Quotes
-
-
I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
MITSKI -
I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
MITSKI -
I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
MITSKI -
It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
MITSKI -
Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
MITSKI -
I’m punk, but I love gold.
MITSKI -
I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKI -
As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
MITSKI -
The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
MITSKI