Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
GRIMESI’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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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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’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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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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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