Japanese - Musician | September 27, 1990 -
It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
Mitski
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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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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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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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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.
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My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!'
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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.
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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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