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.
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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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.
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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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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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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’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Lately I’ve been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good 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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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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