Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
MITSKII think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
More Mitski Quotes
-
-
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
MITSKI -
People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKI -
Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
MITSKI -
A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
MITSKI -
I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
MITSKI -
I’m not an innovator.
MITSKI -
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 -
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 -
I’m punk, but I love gold.
MITSKI -
It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKI -
I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKI -
Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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