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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.

Mitski

I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
MITSKI

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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 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.
MITSKI

Do Few Kid Last Lesson Over Own Piano Took
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!’
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
MITSKI

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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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