I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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What’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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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.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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