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.
MITSKIMaybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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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 hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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