I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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