Japanese - Musician | September 27, 1990 -
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
Mitski
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When you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. 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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, 'I love this place.'
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I'm punk, but I love gold.
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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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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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