Grimes Quotes

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.

I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be in.

When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

I think I once went three or four years without doing a play, and I almost lost my mind, then I came back and did 'Spamalot.'

I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

Actually, what I did, because I couldn't make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I decided the best way to sing 'I Have Confidence' was to go completely nuts with panic and fear.

I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you.

A lot of writers don't know what it feels like to get on stage. They don't understand the weight that songs can carry. I got a chance to play all these shows. I got a chance to define myself through music, so when it comes to helping other people figure out what they should say, I've been through it.

I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.

Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is particularly straight up rock.