Especially with music, people want confidence.
GRIMESFrom an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
More Grimes Quotes
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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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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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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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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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’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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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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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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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.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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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