Grimes Quotes

When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.

It was Freddie who instilled in us the belief that we had to make people gasp every time.

I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

I've learned that if you don't have anyone opposing your work, if you don't have anyone thinking, 'Man, that should be me. I could do that. I should have thought of that, or they must have teams of people doing it for them,' your work simply isn't reaching enough people to be relevant.

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever.

Never compete, create.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

Creativity is a renewable resource.

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

When you're making your 20th movie, it might be the 20th most incredible thing that's ever happened to you!

The great artist takes what he needs.

Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.