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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.

Mitski

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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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