I think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKII’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
More Mitski Quotes
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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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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