I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
MITSKIWhat’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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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