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Mitski

Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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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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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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