I don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
GRIMESI love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
More Grimes Quotes
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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It’s important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you’re a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
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When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don’t respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
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My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It’s a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn’t want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
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I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I’m making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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In America there’s lot of cool cities, but in Canada there’s, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they’re so expensive. Montreal is the only city that’s affordable but also has buses and culture.
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I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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