Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
GRIMESI 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.”
More Grimes Quotes
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Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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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 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 Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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 love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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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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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.
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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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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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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