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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

Mitski

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
People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
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 was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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Creative Film Job Major More Opportunity Reason Some Thought
I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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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.
MITSKI

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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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Closer Country Folk Listen Old Pop Really
I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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