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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.

Mitski

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.
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Best Care Hard Love Realize Someone Them Try Want
Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Good Inspiration Tour Writing
I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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Also Camp Country Neither Want White
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
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
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
I think music is supposed to be shared.
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Music Share Suppose Think
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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
MITSKI

Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
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 feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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Always Choose Feel Like Make One Place Stay Thing Travel Want
When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
MITSKI

Gold Punk Love
Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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