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.
MITSKII think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
More Mitski Quotes
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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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.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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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.
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