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Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
Grimes
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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Claire Elise Boucher
Claire Boucher
Shivers
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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.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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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!
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Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.
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If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.
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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'.
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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
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It's important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you're a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
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From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.
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I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
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I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.
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If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
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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.
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Especially with music, people want confidence.
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I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
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The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
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Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.
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