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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.

Mitski

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
MITSKI

Came Care How Just Make Music Next Really
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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Almost Can Car Get Infant Read Sick
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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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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Automatical Become Bend Immediately Lover Often Problem Want
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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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Everything Haven Ten Instead Knock Once Seem Thing Time
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
MITSKI

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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 think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.

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