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.
GRIMESI don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
More Grimes Quotes
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I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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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.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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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.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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.
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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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