I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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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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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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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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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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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I approach music – and this sounds crazy – as though I’m Phil Spector, and I’m cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff – except they’re all me. But I’m not, like, transgendered.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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