Top 140 Quotes & Sayings by Grimes - Page 2

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

I'm not trained in music.

Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

I start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes cursed. I have to delete it.

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

Most of my music videos were made for under $200.

You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

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.

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

I'm a very nervous, shy person.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

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.

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

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.

I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.

Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.

I prefer making videos to making music.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.

If I'll be sexualized, it wouldn't be because I was wearing sexy clothes, because I look like a baby. But music is an inherently sexual thing. If something sexual is going to be expressed, it's going to be in my music.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.

I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.

One thing with Montreal is it's so cold and everyone's so poor and beer's so cheap: if you go to a show you have to brave the weather to get there. So you show up and everyone's soaking wet - there's a sense of 'I trekked through three feet of snow to get here!' I think there's a kind of camaraderie that arises out of that, that's important to me as well.

Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later, so there's no pressure and it doesn't matter and no-one's ever gonna hear it'.

I love humanity, I love the way people look

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great to hear music where you can tell the person making it was just having a blast. That's really important to me as far as my process goes. That's probably why my music ends up being so poppy!

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

I cry really easily. If I see a butterfly, I'll practically burst into tears. So it's really hard for me to yell at people, because I'll feel so guilty about it. But if I don't, then they don't take me seriously and it's this endless cycle.

My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."

Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.

Even though I really admire what Beyonce does, and she's probably got one of the best live shows in the world - honestly! - that's so not my style.

I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours of listening to your own song again and again and again. It becomes so grating after a while.

Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as Canadians to be part of these decisions. The only thing standing between this world and environmental catastrophe is us

I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.

I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn't nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.

If I think about what other people are thinking when I'm making music, I just can't do it. It's too withheld - I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn't want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.

Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don't respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

I would never go to a studio. I need my space, you know what I mean? I need to be able to chain smoke and pace about, cry and like... spit. Just make noise, make a huge mess. I also feel like if I was concerned for the cost of the studio - like, 'this is costing 40 dollars an hour' - I wouldn't be able to work.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.