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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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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I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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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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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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 just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Lately I’ve been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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