I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
GRIMESEspecially with music, people want confidence.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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