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

Mitski

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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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
MITSKI

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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKI

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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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