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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.

Mitski

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.
MITSKI

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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 your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
MITSKI

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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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All Feel Like Seriously Taken Time
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKI

Over Say Somebody Tempting Want When You
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’m not an innovator.
MITSKI

Innovator Not
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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
MITSKI

Automatical Become Bend Immediately Lover Often Problem Want
I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
MITSKI

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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
MITSKI

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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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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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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