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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.

Mitski

I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
MITSKI

Always Haven Myself String Urge
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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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Able Artist Communities Fight Our Reason Responsibility Think
I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Almost Can Car Get Infant Read Sick
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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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All Feel Like Seriously Taken Time
I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKI

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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
MITSKI

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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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.
MITSKI

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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
MITSKI

Do Few Kid Last Lesson Over Own Piano Took
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
I’m not an innovator.
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Innovator Not
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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.

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