I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
GRIMESWhen an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don’t respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
More Grimes Quotes
-
-
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.
GRIMES -
Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
GRIMES -
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I always wanted to be really experimental.
GRIMES -
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
GRIMES -
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
GRIMES -
I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
GRIMES -
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES