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.
MITSKII don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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Things 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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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