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.
MITSKIIt’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’m not an innovator.
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