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Mitski

Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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Already Balme Bend Around Exist Hard Lot Realise Start
When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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Everyone Musical Musician Want
Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Anything Anywhere Belong Felt Grow Lot Moved My Own Really Up
I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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Anyone Ask Assume Been Hobby Offend Strangely Time Whether
Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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Comunity Exist Ingratiate Myself Whenever Tried
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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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.
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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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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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Anything Exist Ideology Important Material Me Reflective Song

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