Mitski Quotes

I feel like I was born to make music.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.

I knew being a musician was my calling when I was 12 or 13. I started singing when I was six but didn't actually see myself being a singer when I was 12 or 13.

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to who I am and why I am the way I am, and what I do. I think it's still about the music, the song and the story.

Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.

I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just something that is life blood. If I'm not participating in some way, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do.

I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I am. I did not choose writing - it chose me. And I believe it is necessarily that way. Anyone doing this for some other reason should not be.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.