When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKII actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
More Mitski Quotes
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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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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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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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.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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