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.
GRIMESFashion 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.
More Grimes Quotes
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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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.
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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
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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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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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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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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 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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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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