Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
GRIMESIn 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.
More Grimes Quotes
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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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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 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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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 write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it’s dark.
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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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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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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 prefer making videos to making music.
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I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
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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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Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn’t mean it’s not important or relevant.
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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 want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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