I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
MITSKII feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
More Mitski Quotes
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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.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to 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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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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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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