Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKII think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
More Mitski Quotes
-
-
Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
MITSKI -
Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKI -
I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
MITSKI -
I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
MITSKI -
It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
MITSKI -
I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
MITSKI -
I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKI -
I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKI -
On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
MITSKI -
I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
MITSKI -
Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
MITSKI