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.
GRIMESI’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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 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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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 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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I 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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