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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.

Mitski

All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKI

All Feel Like Seriously Taken Time
What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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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 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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
MITSKI

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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKI

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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
MITSKI

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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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