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.
GRIMESI write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
More Grimes Quotes
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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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I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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 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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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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 get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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