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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

When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.

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