For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play. Feist More Quotes by Feist More Quotes From Feist 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 metal-fansfightingreal 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 crazystupidfun I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it. Feist charmeddickenslondon I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks. Feist diggingnostalgictrunks I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France this year, and it was truly the most crazy, beautiful, bizarre place I've ever been. Feist crazybeautifulyears 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 realseapeople It may be years until the day Feist dreammayyears If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker. Feist doctorswinepeople 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 dancefloor. I was interested in that. I can't make electronic beats, so I leave it to the pros like Boys Noize and Chromeo. Feist kingssongbeautiful 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 qualitysolitudetrying Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through. Feist skillswritingway I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore. Feist knowingideasthinking 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 castingselfmean 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 romantic-lovehappinesspeople I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this. Feist sunshinebeautifulthinking I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities. Feist renewaldetailsthinking Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies. Feist simplesonglying And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy. Feist simplicitylittlesjoy I know more than I knew before I didn't rest I didn't stop Did we fight or did we talk. Feist fightingknows All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma. Feist partygrandmagirl
