I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
MITSKIThings seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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When 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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