If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
MITSKIIf I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
More Mitski Quotes
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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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