Author: Grimes

Quotes

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.

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.

- Grimes

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.

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.

- Grimes

I'm against spending money to record.

I'm against spending money to record.

- Grimes

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 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.

- Grimes

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.

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.

- Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

- Grimes

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

- Grimes

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 obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.

- Grimes

I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.

I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.

- Grimes

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