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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

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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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Do Few Kid Last Lesson Over Own Piano Took
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
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.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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Anything Care Emotion Expres Make Music Nostalgic
Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
MITSKI

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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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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Like Music Say Someone Something
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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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