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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.

Mitski

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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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.
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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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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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