Grimes Quotes

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Grimes

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1988

When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.

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The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

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I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

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I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

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It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.

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Usually I perform with dancers.

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I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.

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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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My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.

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My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

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I truly love 'Gangnam Style.' I guess it's a meme. I feel like it's one of the few times where the meme and the quality combines nicely.

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It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.

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When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

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I don't own anything designer.

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I've always been such a nerd.

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I listen to a lot of medieval music.

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I like creating beauty out of scary things.

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I think my sound is post-Internet.

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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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There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

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