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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.

Mitski

When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
MITSKI

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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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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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.
MITSKI

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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!’
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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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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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.
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.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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.
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