Grimes Quotes

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Grimes

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1988

If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.

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Music is a religion to me and my friends.

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There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.

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I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

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It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.

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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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The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.

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I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.

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I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

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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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I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.

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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 start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes cursed. I have to delete it.

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Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

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I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

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I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

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The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

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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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I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

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You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

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