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" If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically. "
Grimes
Doing
Development
Focus
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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 don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living. "
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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 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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Walk
" I'm a super-introverted person. "
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" I've always been very intense about everything I do. "
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" If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile. "
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" 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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" 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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" Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity. "
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" If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative. "
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" Most of my music videos were made for under $200. "
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" Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place. "
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Crazy
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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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Creative
Early
Unhappy
" As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality. "
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Myself
Quality
Challenge
" 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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Love
Like
Feel
" I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not. "
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I Can
Early
Tell
" I listen to a lot of medieval music. "
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Music
Medieval
Lot
" I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl. "
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Being
Girl
Sexy
" 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
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" Usually I perform with dancers. "
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Perform
Dancers
" I'm against spending money to record. "
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Against
Spending Money
Spending
" 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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Friends
Population
Up
" Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers. "
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Me
Song
Deliver
" I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there. "
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Cold
Montreal
" I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious. "
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School
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High School
" I don't own anything designer. "
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Designer
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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 not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do. "
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