Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
MITSKIWhat’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
More Mitski Quotes
-
-
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 -
I think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKI -
I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
MITSKI -
I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
MITSKI -
I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
MITSKI -
I 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.
MITSKI -
I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
MITSKI -
You can never learn enough about music.
MITSKI -
When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
MITSKI -
When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
MITSKI -
I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
MITSKI