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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.

Grimes

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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Bigs Interest Video
Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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Girl Successful Ugly
I always wanted to be really experimental.
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Experimental Really Wanted
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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Issues People Teenagers
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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Fit Runway Size Tired
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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Anything Desire Intense Way
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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Important Mean Philosophical
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
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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Cities Country People Vancouver
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.
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Essence Hype Video
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
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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Black Night Window
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
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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