The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.
GRIMESSometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
More Grimes Quotes
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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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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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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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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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I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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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 only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I’ll black out the windows or something.
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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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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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I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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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 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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Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn’t want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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