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Mitski

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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Around Form Identity Know Think Whole
You can never learn enough about music.
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Enough Learn Music never
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 think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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Brain Control Entered Growth Influence Kid Out Thing Think
I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Always Haven Myself String Urge
With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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Completer Control List Over Set Show Solo
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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Every Feel Privilege Resistance Such Turn
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKI

Over Say Somebody Tempting Want When You
Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
MITSKI

Comunity Exist Ingratiate Myself Whenever Tried
Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Anything Anywhere Belong Felt Grow Lot Moved My Own Really Up
Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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Greatly Movie Raise Shape Since Them Very Watch Young
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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Always Been Death Fascinate Morbid Sound
I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Cross Finger Hope Musician Whole Writer
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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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