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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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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 it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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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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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKI

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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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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I’m not an innovator.
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