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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

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

Chill Downtime Hard Make Music Think
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 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.
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.
MITSKI

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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKI

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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
MITSKI

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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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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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.
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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
MITSKI

Gold Punk Love
When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
MITSKI

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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
MITSKI

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