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.
GRIMESI write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
More Grimes Quotes
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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.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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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.
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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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