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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

I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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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Bring High Low Notes Really Some Somewhere Song Try Want
I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Gold Punk Love
Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Being Good Outsider Relly Writer
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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Everyone Musical Musician Want
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 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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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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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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