I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing 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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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