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" I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show! "
Grimes
Permanent
Loss
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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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Yourself
You
" I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel. "
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Me
Important
" My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music. "
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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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" 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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Say
Done
" I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general. "
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Just
Japanese
Stuff
" 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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Music
Painting
End
" 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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Natural
Performer
" I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow. "
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Work
Need
Alone
" I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious. "
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School
Unpopular
High School
" I'm a very nervous, shy person. "
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Nervous
Shy Person
Very
" There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap. "
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You
Art
Easy
" 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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Music
Effort
You
" I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened. "
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Music
Experience
Get
" I don't own anything designer. "
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Anything
Designer
Own
" I listen to a lot of medieval music. "
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Music
Medieval
Lot
" 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 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
" I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living. "
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Want
Compromise
Living
" My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna. "
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Out
Hits
Dream
" 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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Meeting
Music
Friendship
" When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do. "
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Slow
Psychedelic
First
" I want to make an a cappella record to release for free. "
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Free
Cappella
Make
" My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque. "
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Really
Get
Set
" 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
" 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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Caring
Me
Tired
" I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general. "
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Crazy
Like
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" The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety. "
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Anxiety
Bad
Sit
" I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl. "
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Being
Girl
Sexy