$Mitski Quote - I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.$
$Mitski Quote - I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.$
$Mitski Quote - I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.$
$Mitski Quote - I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.$
$Mitski Quote - I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.$
$Mitski Quote - I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.$

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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.

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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 think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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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 think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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