I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn’t nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes 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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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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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.
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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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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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