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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

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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Could Just Me Mine Music One Put Thing
I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Attain Country Culture Dream Enter Inherited never Something
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
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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Being Country Crisis First Few Identity Long Major never One Place Stay Year
When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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Best Care Hard Love Realize Someone Them Try Want
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
Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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All Become Being Bought More Objective Outsider Thing Time Unhealthy Useful
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
I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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Alone Happiness Maintain Obsessed Think Try
I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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Always Choose Feel Like Make One Place Stay Thing Travel Want
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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Audience Get People Play Pressure Show Think
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 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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Actually Get Know Myself Once Out School Wait Want
The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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Appreciate Certainty Comparision Earliest Girl Grunge Journalist Music Out Pick Rush Whole
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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Anyone Ask Assume Been Hobby Offend Strangely Time Whether
I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Call Girl Intense One People Those Was
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
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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Around Artist Counties Father Folk Hink Music Obesess Perform World
I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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Discover More Out Set Something Write
I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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Can Dance Guess Move Playful Say Serious Too Twist
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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All Always Born Country Day From Have Thing Want What
I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Gold Punk Love
On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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Gender Hand Important One Progress Race Ralk Very
When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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Arrive Before Come Country Discover Here Identity

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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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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