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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.

Mitski

I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
MITSKI

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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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Anything Care Emotion Expres Make Music Nostalgic
When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
MITSKI

Feel Finally Like Myself Onstage Perform Want Way
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 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 discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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Arrive Before Come Country Discover Here Identity
I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Cross Finger Hope Musician Whole Writer
I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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.
MITSKI

Do Few Kid Last Lesson Over Own Piano Took
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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Could Just Me Mine Music One Put Thing
When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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