From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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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 feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn’t nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.
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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 always wanted to be really experimental.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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 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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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 like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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 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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