I prefer making videos to making music.
GRIMESJust because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
More Grimes Quotes
-
-
I always wanted to be really experimental.
GRIMES -
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
GRIMES -
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
GRIMES -
I think a lot of music that’s really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it’s a commodified thing, so it can’t be “indie.”
GRIMES -
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
GRIMES -
If I think about what other people are thinking when I’m making music, I just can’t do it. It’s too withheld – I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.
GRIMES -
Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it’s also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
GRIMES -
It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it’s really important for me to not break the groove.
GRIMES -
I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn’t nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.
GRIMES -
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there’s always a narrative that is very nonlinear – and that’s the essence of a good music video.
GRIMES -
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
GRIMES -
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
GRIMES -
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
GRIMES