I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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 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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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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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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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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