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" Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it. "
GRiZ
School
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" I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot. "
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" It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra. "
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" When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted. "
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" My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking. "
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" Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It's a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired or overly excited. "
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" Zelda is the best solo game; Mario Cart is the best group game. "
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" I loved playing the saxophone. "
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" Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything. "
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Always
First
" I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines. "
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" I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up. "
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" Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life. "
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" I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself. "
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" I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably 'Princess Mononoke.' "
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Movies
" I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope. "
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Coming
Out
" I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs. "
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Out
" When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it's cool to see people with their phones, like, 'It's so novel; everyone cares about this moment so much,' but then it becomes... trite, y'know, and shallow. I think the best moments of my life have been spent without phones. "
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" I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy. "
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Be Happy
Need
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" I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better. "
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" My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now. "
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" I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool. "
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" Most of the people that work for me are my friends, and I'd like to keep it that way. "
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" I love playing live and creating these records that people are so into. "
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" There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be 'uncool.' "
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" Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon. "
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" I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I'll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor. "
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" If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference. "
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" My vision is a blend of the old school and the new school, but with zero rules. "
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Zero
" I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music. "
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" I love what I do, and I do it 24/7, and it hurts my relationships very often, but it's worth it. "
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