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" I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized. "
Grimes
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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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" 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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" 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'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl. "
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Girl
Sexy
" 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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Rock
Say
Done
" 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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Talk
Play
You
" I've always been very intense about everything I do. "
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Always
Been
Everything
" 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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Up
" I listen to a lot of medieval music. "
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Music
Medieval
Lot
" 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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Tired
Runway
More
" I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it. "
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Love
Who
Sentimental
" If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative. "
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You
Doing
Someone
" 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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Something
Someone
Just
" I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me. "
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Me
Shoes
Walk
" I don't own anything designer. "
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Anything
Designer
Own
" I'm not trained in music. "
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Trained
Music
" It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound. "
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Sound
Interesting
Controlling
" The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you. "
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Present
Yourself
You
" Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers. "
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Me
Song
Deliver
" I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else. "
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Make
Anything
Way
" Music is a religion to me and my friends. "
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Religion
Friends
Me
" 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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Time
Production
Big
" If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically. "
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Doing
Development
Focus
" I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it. "
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People
Driving
Motivation
" Usually I perform with dancers. "
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Perform
Dancers
" 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 Believe
Mind
Know
" My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music. "
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Seems
Image
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" I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal. "
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Steady
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Who
" I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans. "
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Jeans
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Wearing