The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
GRIMESI definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
More Grimes Quotes
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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.
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I prefer making videos to making music.
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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 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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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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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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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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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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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 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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