Feist famous quotes

05-01-2025

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.
-- Feist

#Real #Fighting #Fans
So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
-- Feist

#Fun #Stupid #Crazy
Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I havent written many like that.
-- Feist

#Mind #Trying #Littles
Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesnt feel familiar any more.
-- Feist

#Interesting #Landscape #Aliens
The group-effort sound in recording of Sea Lion is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. Theres a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
-- Feist

#Real #Sea #People
Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
-- Feist

#People #Broken #Healthy
Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.
-- Feist

#Writing #Skills #Way
I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
-- Feist

#London #Dickens
Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
-- Feist

#Thinking #Years #Two
I'd hear some beautiful Sade or Kings Of Convenience ballad remixed in a club, and I liked that these simple little songs seemed to be masquerading. They had put on superhero costumes, got all beefy, and here they were on the dance floor. I was interested in that. I can't make electronic beats, so I leave it to the pros like Boys Noize and Chromeo.
-- Feist

#Beautiful #Song #Kings
No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.
-- Feist

#Solitude #Trying #Quality
If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
-- Feist

#Wall #Fall #Stills
There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.
-- Feist

#Knowing #Together #Not Knowing
When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
-- Feist

#Mean #Self #Enough Time
It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay.
-- Feist

#Dream #Years #May
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
-- Feist

#Happiness #Romantic Love #People

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