I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
GRIMESI always wanted to be really experimental.
More Grimes Quotes
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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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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