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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’

Mitski

I think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKI

Music Share Suppose Think
I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Creativity Fiction Have Kind Think Write
I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Every Feel Privilege Resistance Such Turn
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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Being Country Crisis First Few Identity Long Major never One Place Stay Year
I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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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.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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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.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’

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