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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 don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
MITSKI

Anything Care Emotion Expres Make Music Nostalgic
Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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Comunity Exist Ingratiate Myself Whenever Tried
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
When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Believe Like Lot Make Media Music Social Something Start
Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Good Inspiration Tour Writing
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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Adult Doing Expect Growth Kid Kind Realize Something Still
I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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Around Carry Figure Find Guitar Harder Keyboard Litle Music Piano Real Take Want
All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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