Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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 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.
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