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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.

Mitski

When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Believe Like Lot Make Media Music Social Something Start
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.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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.
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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.
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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Gold Punk Love
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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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.
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Always Been Death Fascinate Morbid Sound
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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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