I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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