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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.

Mitski

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.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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.
MITSKI

Always Been Death Fascinate Morbid Sound
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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose

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