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.
GRIMESLately 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.
More Grimes Quotes
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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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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.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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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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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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