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I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.
Grimes
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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
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Vancouver
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Claire Elise Boucher
Claire Boucher
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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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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.
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By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.
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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!
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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 have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
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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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I listen to a lot of medieval music.
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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.
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
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I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.
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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.
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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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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.
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I don't own anything designer.
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Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
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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.
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Lately I've been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
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I can't censor myself it's really important for me to say how I feel.
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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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