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" The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you. "
Grimes
Present
Yourself
You
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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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" I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel. "
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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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" I listen to a lot of medieval music. "
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" If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship. "
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" I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal. "
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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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" 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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" Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers. "
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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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" I like creating beauty out of scary things. "
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" I've always been very intense about everything I do. "
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" Especially with music, people want confidence. "
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" It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound. "
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" I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act. "
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Want
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Act
" I always wanted to be really experimental. "
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Experimental
" I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living. "
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" I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art. "
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" I think my sound is post-Internet. "
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" I've always been such a nerd. "
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Nerd
Always
Been
" 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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Get
" 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
Fun
" 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
" My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna. "
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Out
Hits
Dream
" 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 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
" The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety. "
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" I'm a very nervous, shy person. "
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" I'm not trained in music. "
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