I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
GRIMESI get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
More Grimes Quotes
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
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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 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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Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn’t want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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