Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
GRIMESI’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
More Grimes Quotes
-
-
Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
GRIMES -
I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
GRIMES -
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
GRIMES -
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
GRIMES -
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
GRIMES -
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.
GRIMES -
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
GRIMES