Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
GRIMESI only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
More Grimes Quotes
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When 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.
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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 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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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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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I’m making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.
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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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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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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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