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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

Mitski

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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKI

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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
MITSKI

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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
MITSKI

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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
MITSKI

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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKI

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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
MITSKI

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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
MITSKI

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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

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

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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

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