Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
MITSKII 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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I’m not an innovator.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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