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“I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is…” quote by Mitski — Download Open image

“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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