People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKIWhen you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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 was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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 think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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