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.
GRIMESBasically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
More Grimes Quotes
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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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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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 don’t have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.
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Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
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I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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