Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
GRIMESI don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
More Grimes Quotes
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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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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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 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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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 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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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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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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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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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 don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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