black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

Mitski

I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
MITSKI

Belong Came Country Create Either Idea Realise
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKI

Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
MITSKI

Belong Crisis Even Found Identity Itself Place
I’m not an innovator.
MITSKI

Innovator Not
All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKI

All Feel Like Seriously Taken Time
Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
MITSKI

Artist Hard Indie might Musician Pop Rally Same Thing Work
When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKI

Bend Job Love Make Minority Really Someone Want Work
You can never learn enough about music.
MITSKI

Enough Learn Music never
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

Always Better Color Competent Consider Everybody Fifty Hundred Percent Room Woman
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.
MITSKI

Completer Control List Over Set Show Solo
When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
MITSKI

Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
MITSKI

Also Camp Country Neither Want White
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKI

Over Say Somebody Tempting Want When You
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.
MITSKI

Being Country Crisis First Few Identity Long Major never One Place Stay Year
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
MITSKI

Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
MITSKI

Art Artist Being Little Make People Realize Think

I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Mitski Quotes