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Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.

Grimes

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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Crazy Moving People
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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Important Mean Philosophical
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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Country Obsessed Stuff
I like going crazy. And not just for art – I like extremes in general.
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Crazy General Going
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
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Hard Performing Sick
Especially with music, people want confidence.
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Confidence People Want
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.
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Persons Sentimental
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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Deliver Shiver Song
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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Issues People Teenagers
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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Artist Block People
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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Artist Crazy Moving
From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
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Age Creative Unhappy
I prefer making videos to making music.
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Making Music Video
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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Essence Hype Video
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we’re stuck inside all the time.
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Music Stuck Thinking
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don’t feel that way about anything else.
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Anything Desire Intense Way

Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.

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