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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.

Mitski

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.
MITSKI

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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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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.
MITSKI

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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
MITSKI

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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
MITSKI

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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 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 music is supposed to be shared.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKI

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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKI

Good Inspiration Tour Writing
As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
MITSKI

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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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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
MITSKI

Anything Care Emotion Expres Make Music Nostalgic

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