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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Belong Crisis Even Found Identity Itself Place
When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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Get Indulge Morose Most One Serious Take Time Young Yourself
I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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Chill Downtime Hard Make Music Think
When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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Feel Finally Like Myself Onstage Perform Want Way
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Decision Important Into Make Most Much Often One Put Times
You can never learn enough about music.
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Enough Learn Music never
When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Believe Like Lot Make Media Music Social Something Start
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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Able Artist Communities Fight Our Reason Responsibility Think
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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Artist Brand Feel Human Icon Like Make Many Music Musician Non So Sometimes Understand
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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Around Carry Figure Find Guitar Harder Keyboard Litle Music Piano Real Take Want
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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Artist Gonna Hate Opinion Other Record
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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Always Better Color Competent Consider Everybody Fifty Hundred Percent Room Woman
Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Being Good Outsider Relly Writer
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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Audience Between Existence Feel Just Obvious Party Perform Sometimes
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
You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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Also Came From Heartbroken Okay Realize Relationship

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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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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