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" There's no such thing as a bad Miyazaki film. "
GRiZ
Thing
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Bad
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" I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past. "
GRiZ
Music
Time
Play
" I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope. "
GRiZ
Hope
Coming
Out
" Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon. "
GRiZ
Trying
Myself
Everyone
" The most important thing, to me is the intention of where things come from, like, why did you use it? What were the intentions of what you did? And if the intention is good, the intention is pure, then everything will turn out good. "
GRiZ
Good
Me
Why
" 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.' "
GRiZ
Teen
Last
Pressure
" You need to be able to communicate your feelings. We need to be able to do that to feel empowered. "
GRiZ
Feel
Your
You
" Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on. "
GRiZ
Most
Piano
Instrument
" I think we're finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized. "
GRiZ
Now
Finally
Culture
" My brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend. "
GRiZ
Been
Will
Friend
" I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs. "
GRiZ
Love
Looking
Out
" I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound. "
GRiZ
I Was Raised
Today
Obsessed
" 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. "
GRiZ
Life
Think
Moment
" I loved playing the saxophone. "
GRiZ
Loved Playing
Saxophone
Loved
" 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. "
GRiZ
Like
Up
More
" In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people. "
GRiZ
Age
Ideas
Inspire
" Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life. "
GRiZ
Band
Years
Some
" 'Say It Loud' came from many, many small battles. From, 'I hate myself, and I hate this,' to, 'I love this, and it's my favorite thing...' to, 'This is the best thing in existence.' "
GRiZ
Small
Myself
Love
" I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot. "
GRiZ
Thinking
Things
Lot
" I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself. "
GRiZ
Like
Music
Myself
" It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra. "
GRiZ
Extra
Everything
About
" 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
Always
Moments
" 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. "
GRiZ
Doing
You
Time
" We just love Denver. The love and support from people here is amazing. "
GRiZ
People
Amazing
Here
" I haven't written my favorite song yet, and I hope I never do. "
GRiZ
Hope
Favorite
Written
" I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music. "
GRiZ
Think
Music
Love
" 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. "
GRiZ
Miles
Dizzy
Lines
" 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. "
GRiZ
Horrible
Cool
Like
" My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking. "
GRiZ
Creative
Liberal
Always
" My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now. "
GRiZ
Roots
Seen
Go
" Zelda is the best solo game; Mario Cart is the best group game. "
GRiZ
Mario
Game
Best