Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn’t want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
GRIMESI don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
More Grimes Quotes
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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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 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.”
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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 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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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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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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 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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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