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.
GRIMESIt’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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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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 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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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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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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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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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