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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.

Mitski

I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
MITSKI

Call Girl Intense One People Those Was
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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Cross Finger Hope Musician Whole Writer
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Like Music Say Someone Something
I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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
You can never learn enough about music.
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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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.
MITSKI

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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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 couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.

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