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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.

Grimes

Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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Girl Successful Ugly
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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Hard Performing Sick
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Made Most Music Video
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Persons Sentimental
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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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Character Findings Whole
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Fashion Grimes Want
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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Good Looks People Times
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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Artist Block People
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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Instrument Pads Voice
Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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Basically Consistency Impressionable
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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Cities Country People Vancouver
I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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Broken Care Heart
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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Artist Crazy Moving
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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Dark Winter Writing

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.

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