Lately 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.
GRIMESI like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
More Grimes Quotes
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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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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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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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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 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 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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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