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Mitski

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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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.
MITSKI

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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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.
MITSKI

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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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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