My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It’s a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
GRIMESI definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
More Grimes Quotes
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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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I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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It’s important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you’re a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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I don’t even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
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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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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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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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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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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