Quotes by Christine And The Queens - Page 2

It's always odd to me when people say, 'Where does Heloise finish and Chris start?' It's the same thing. I'm just putting a theatrical form to my expression.
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Odd
Theatrical
Chris
Always Me Start
Me Start People
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I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.
Christine And The Queens /
Body Language
Communicate
Observing
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When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.
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Filled
Life Time My Life
Fantasies
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When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.
Christine And The Queens /
Crumbling
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I wanted 'Comme si' to immediately indicate that something changed in my life, mainly because I became the hero of my own desires instead of just dreaming about them.
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Dreaming
Desires
Indicate
Mainly
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Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.
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Christine
Daring
Shrinking
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I always knew I wanted to be a woman in men's clothing because I just feel good like that. I feel like I'm taking a different space: I move differently; I'm more at ease.
Christine And The Queens /
Space
Ease
Feel Good
Good Men Always
Clothing
Taking
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I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'
Christine And The Queens /
Christine
Excuse
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I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.
Christine And The Queens /
Queens
Christine
Healed
Norm
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The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.
Christine And The Queens /
Time People Hard
Hard Time
Phrase
Relating
Socially
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Because I'm experimenting so much with gender-bending and listening to everything that happens to me in terms of genderless energies, I have a hard time finding partners that can match me.
Christine And The Queens /
Partners
Time Happens Me
Energies
Experimenting
Hard Time
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When I started to write music, I desperately wanted to relate to people. But when I became famous, I could relate less. I thought, 'Oh, am I trapped in my own creation?' I was really lonely.
Christine And The Queens /
Creation
Lonely
Trapped
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Christine, as a stage character, is just a way for me to be more daring, to be more out of the box, to be stronger and to use everything that could weigh me down like a fuel, like an energy.
Christine And The Queens /
Christine
Daring
Fuel
Stage
Stronger
Box
Weigh
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When I have to take phone calls, I start to sweat and panic. Being on the phone is so weird - hearing a voice without seeing the face so you can't really know the intention behind the voice.
Christine And The Queens /
Intention
Panic
Phone Calls
Sweat
Calls
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When you dance, you own everything you have. You are really in your own body. You do it with your muscles and your bones and your weight and your height - it's how to love yourself by moving.
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Dance
Bones
Height
Love Yourself
Moving
Muscles
Weight
Love Love Yourself Yourself
Love Yourself Body
To Love
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Before I created Christine, I was actually really girly. Maybe I was trying to hide something, but I was trying too hard to be a girl, and I didn't know what it meant. I was afraid of being myself.
Christine And The Queens /
Being Myself
Christine
Girly
Hide
Myself Being Myself Trying
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For me, the male gaze is oppressive. And I hope if we are building a female gaze that it's inclusive, and it's about pure desire and not how I want people to look in order for them to be desired by me.
Christine And The Queens /
Desire
Female
Pure
Male
Hope Me Look
Inclusive
Hope Look Me
Gaze
Oppressive
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That's pretty much how I feel on stage, like I can let go of all kinds of baggage, or even disappear and change outfits. I want to remind people that they can grant themselves the license to do the same.
Christine And The Queens /
Baggage
Disappear
License
Outfits
Change People Feel
Grant
Let Go
Remind
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I love people that are question marks. I love people that don't have answers and are just trying to cope with it. I love people that just don't tick boxes. There is a grace in them I can't really find elsewhere.
Christine And The Queens /
Boxes
Elsewhere
Grace
Tick
Love People Find
Cope
Marks
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I see theatre everywhere, actually. We're all kind of performing a version of ourselves every morning by choosing the clothes and how we appear - but the stage is so emphasising that I really feel comfortable in it.
Christine And The Queens /
Appear
Choosing
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Music is contagious and everywhere and democratic, and that's what drew me in. I was interested in acting and being a director, but one of the things that bored me about theatre was that it was not accessible to everyone.
Christine And The Queens /
Bored
Contagious
Music Me Acting
Drew
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In real life, I feel tiny and quite embarrassed all the time. But when people come up to me in France and want to talk to Christine, it's okay. It's cool. Because they're really talking about themselves, their own Christines.
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Christine
Embarrassed
Tiny
Life Cool Time
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You have to work with your body when you dance; you can't shy away from your physicality. For me, it's really linked to an incandescent way of accepting yourself and projecting. The dancing was at the core from the beginning.
Christine And The Queens /
Linked
Physicality
Your Body
Work Me Yourself
Projecting
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I have Googled so many things related to possible diseases, and it's always ridiculous. Like, 'My toe is hurting. Do I have cancer?' 'I have a scratch in my eye. Am I going to die soon?' 'Is eating a soup going to make me die?'
Christine And The Queens /
Related
Soup
Always Me Die
Diseases
Hurting
Scratch
Toe
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I broke up with my first girlfriend because I was out of love. I was crushing so hard on her for a whole year, and I finally I got to be with her, and the interest vanished. I'm a terrible person. I was 17, and she was in my class.
Christine And The Queens /
Broke
Crushing
Vanished
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When I was young, I took classical ballet lessons, but I wasn't very good at it. It was really frustrating because I wanted to be good at it. When I stopped having lessons, I began to dance and improvise, and I felt more comfortable.
Christine And The Queens /
Ballet
Frustrating
Lessons
Classical
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I'm kind of obsessed with Bruce Springsteen - the T-shirt and jeans look for me is appealing. Prince was great as well. He designed all of his outfits himself and looked exactly how he wanted to look. He was in complete control of his image.
Christine And The Queens /
Jeans
Outfits
Springsteen
Great Me Look
Appealing
Bruce
Bruce Springsteen
Designed
Great Look Me
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Tapping into a more masculine, macho culture, I got in touch with my femininity, but differently. Macho culture is also pride of the body and showing it off - a relationship to theatricality, to construction. It's about owning your narrative again.
Christine And The Queens /
Relationship
Body
Construction
Femininity
Macho
Masculine
Narrative
Pride
Tapping
Again
Touch
Owning
Showing
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The success of the first album was almost an anomaly, and it could remain a fantastic anomaly. It was not crafted for commercial success. I remember meetings with my label saying it had no radio singles. For me, the second album was a gesture of independence.
Christine And The Queens /
Independence
Singles
Anomaly
Commercial Success
Crafted
Gesture
Label
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I remember writing '5 Dollars' out of intense listening sessions of Bruce Springsteen. I don't know if it's obvious, but I was obsessed with how limpid Bruce Springsteen's melodies are: It's such a great way to do storytelling and to still be melodic and catchy.
Christine And The Queens /
Catchy
Intense
Obvious
Springsteen
Bruce
Bruce Springsteen
Great Way
Melodic
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Most people know Serge Gainsbourg's 'Histoire de Melody Nelson' album, but what's interesting is that in the early '90s, he actually went into a dark, weird phase that French people don't really like. They consider his music from that time weak. But for me, it's the best.
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Melody
Nelson
Weak
Best Time Music
French People
Phase
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I remember growing up and feeling all the time not pretty enough, too rude, too loud, taking too much space because precisely I wanted to maybe be bossy and loud and unapologetic and not really smooth all the time, and those were not really qualities that were valued for me.
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Bossy
Loud
Time Space Enough
Valued
Space Time Me
Precisely
Qualities
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I remember studying so hard for so long and saying to my parents, 'I will be a teacher.' And they were looking at me like, 'Girl... you just want to be on stage. Stop pretending.' So when I chose to do music, they were relieved. My parents were more intelligent and lucid than I was.
Christine And The Queens /
Girl
Teacher
Intelligent
Relieved
Stage
Music Me Long
Teacher Music Me
Chose
Parents
Lucid
Saying
Studying
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Typically, in France, someone in my position should keep their mouth shut. I'm an entertainer, operating in the realm of pop, and it's often looked down upon for a pop artist to take a stand, to have convictions or opinions. But I don't think the two are incompatible or mutually exclusive.
Christine And The Queens /
Exclusive
Convictions
Incompatible
Mouth
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
Opinions
Realm
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There are lots of ways to be a feminist. Beyonce, for example, is a beautiful example of feminine sensuality and is still really powerful. My character and my inner essence is more like an awkward 15-year-old boy, like a teenager backstage, like, 'Yeah, what's up?' That's what I'm trying to channel.
Christine And The Queens /
Beyonce
Essence
Feminine
Sensuality
Backstage
Channel
For Example
Inner
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The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.
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Christine
Attempt
Time Space Character
Escape
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Grimes is the extreme version of doing everything yourself. I think this is impressive, because she is fiddling with things I couldn't fiddle with, all the technical stuff. I know what I want to do, but I wouldn't do it all my own, I would go crazy. This is insanely hard, to do an album by yourself. But I admire her for that.
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Fiddle
Extreme
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I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but you will never succeed because it's intertwined with really personal references and really personal ways to exist on stage. They are really strong individuals, and are writing their own songs and know where they want to go.
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Intertwined
Copy
References
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I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!
Christine And The Queens /
Enlightening
Mess
Obsession
Right Direction
Love Good Music
Expressing
Haters
Heading
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