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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.

Mitski

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.
MITSKI

Comunity Exist Ingratiate Myself Whenever Tried
I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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Always Choose Feel Like Make One Place Stay Thing Travel Want
Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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Audience Between Existence Feel Just Obvious Party Perform Sometimes
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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Audience Get People Play Pressure Show Think
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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All Always Born Country Day From Have Thing Want What
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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Artist Hard Indie might Musician Pop Rally Same Thing Work
I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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Accept Acknowledge Being Have Institution Thing
I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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Can Dance Guess Move Playful Say Serious Too Twist
I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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Everyone Musical Musician Want
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way
I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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Closer Country Folk Listen Old Pop Really
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
You can never learn enough about music.
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Enough Learn Music never
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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Grow Important Made Matter More Objective Process Subjective Think Try Way
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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Always Better Color Competent Consider Everybody Fifty Hundred Percent Room Woman

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