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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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 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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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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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff 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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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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 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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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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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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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 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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