Best 83 quotes of Grimes on MyQuotes

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

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.

Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

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

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.

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.

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

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 believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

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.

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

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything. Vocals can be so many things, like, "Hey, I'm Michael Jackson, and this is my iconic voice," or a choir of people sounding like Mozart's Requiem. Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.

I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.

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 don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and... I just need to be comfortable.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.

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

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

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

I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music.

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 of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

I have a really weird relationship with myself where I'll say, "Do it, do it!" and then, "I don't want to do it anymore, I hate photo shoots, I'm so tired of this!" Or, "I wrote a song, and you're gonna sing it!" then, "I can't hit the note." I want to be a behind-the-scenes producer. I really hate being in front of people. But I'm also obsessed with becoming a pop star.

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

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

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

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

I love humanity, I love the way people look

I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.

I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

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.

I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

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 think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie.

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

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 always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!

I think the internet is kind of redefining what it is to be a teenager. Because there's a lot of media that's aimed at teenagers that other people are getting into. But, conversely, pornography or stuff that's intended for adults is completely readily available to anyone, like teenagers.

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!