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.
GRIMESEspecially with music, people want confidence.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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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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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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 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 definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
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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 think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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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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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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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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I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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