I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else. — Grimes Copy Share Image
My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music. — Grimes Copy Share Image
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time. — Grimes Copy Share Image
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it. — Grimes Copy Share Image
It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to… — Grimes Copy Share Image
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… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest. — Grimes Copy Share Image
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do. — Grimes Copy Share Image
I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a… — Grimes Copy Share Image
The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn't nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can… — Grimes Copy Share Image
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great… — Grimes Copy Share Image
If I think about what other people are thinking when I'm making music, I just can't do it. It's too withheld -… — Grimes Copy Share Image
There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me. — Grimes Copy Share Image
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite. — Grimes Copy Share Image
You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played… — Grimes Copy Share Image
If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship. — Grimes Copy Share Image
Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists. — Grimes Copy Share Image
I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and… — Grimes Copy Share Image
If I'll be sexualized, it wouldn't be because I was wearing sexy clothes, because I look like a baby. But music is… — Grimes Copy Share Image
As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie:… — Grimes Copy Share Image
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite. — Grimes Copy Share Image
I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me. — Grimes Copy Share Image
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything. Vocals can be so many things, like,… — Grimes Copy Share Image
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.… — Grimes Copy Share Image
When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot. — Grimes Copy Share Image
I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do. — Grimes Copy Share Image
From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative. — Grimes Copy Share Image
![“It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.” quote by Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e10/grimes-3169_break_it-takes-me-probably-about-four-hours-to_666902.jpg)
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