Words matter. These are the best GRiZ Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted.
I haven’t written my favorite song yet, and I hope I never do.
I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope.
It’s all about the music. Everything else is just extra.
In this day and age, I really just don’t want to sell people on something. I don’t want to have to sell you sound. I don’t like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people.
If you make music with business in your head, it’ll show. I make it from the heart. There’s a difference.
My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 – it was actually the first music festival I’ve ever been to.
I don’t need more money. I don’t need that to be happy.
My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that’s important.
Most of the people that work for me are my friends, and I’d like to keep it that way.
Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It’s a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired or overly excited.
Zelda is the best solo game; Mario Cart is the best group game.
I love looking out at a sea of people. It’s mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs.
I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I’ll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor.
Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn’t the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.
My brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend.
Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self.
‘Say It Loud’ came from many, many small battles. From, ‘I hate myself, and I hate this,’ to, ‘I love this, and it’s my favorite thing…’ to, ‘This is the best thing in existence.’
When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it’s cool to see people with their phones, like, ‘It’s so novel; everyone cares about this moment so much,’ but then it becomes… trite, y’know, and shallow. I think the best moments of my life have been spent without phones.
My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking.
I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.
There’s no such thing as a bad Miyazaki film.
Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life.
Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it.
I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio – like, ‘Yeah!’ – and also be like, ‘Who is this Griz guy? He’s horrible.’ That’d be really cool.
There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be ‘uncool.’
Everyone wants to grow, but I’m not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon.
I think we’re finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized.
I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably ‘Princess Mononoke.’
I love playing live and creating these records that people are so into.
