Top 140 Quotes & Sayings by Grimes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian musician Grimes.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Grimes

Claire Elise Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her music has incorporated elements of varied styles, including dream pop, electronic, R&B, and hip hop, while touching on science fiction and feminist themes. She has released five studio albums.

I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway. — © Grimes
I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.
My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.
I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.
I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.
I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
I've always been very intense about everything I do.
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.
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.
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues. — © Grimes
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
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.
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.
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.
I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
I like creating beauty out of scary things.
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.
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.
I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.
I listen to a lot of medieval music.
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about 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.
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.
I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!
I think my sound is post-Internet.
The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.
Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
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.
I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.
I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
I've always been such a nerd.
It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.
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. — © Grimes
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.
My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.
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.
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
I don't own anything designer.
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.
I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.
I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
I always wanted to be really experimental.
Usually I perform with dancers. — © Grimes
Usually I perform with dancers.
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.
It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.
I'm against spending money to record.
If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
I'm a super-introverted person.
If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.
If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.
I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.
My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.
I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.
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