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.
MITSKII wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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