I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKIA 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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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 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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I 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.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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