27 Feist Quotes for You to Enjoy

Feist

Canadian Musician

Born: Feb 13, 1976

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You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song. Feist

You Song Worthy Never Know Getting Going Play

There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did. Feist

Change Mind Singing Subconscious Changed Later Kind Vantage Vantage Point Something Point Songs Stuff Wrote Because Line Hear Been Years Times Did Where Different Little Meaning Certain Planted Moment Sudden Chameleon Four Lizard

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

Lion Time You People Recording Energy Like Sound Real Hear Same Same Time Room Them Really Sea Playing

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

Love You People Be True Feelings Other Way Rarely Some About Voltaire Observations Observed True Well Read Does Go Truths Modern Just Romantic Romantic Love Literature Anywhere Meaning Rotten Each Universal

Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them. Feist

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play. Feist

Music Me You Much Choice Chosen Play

I live and die by puns. Feist

Live Puns Die

I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now. Feist

Internet Shifting Changing Everyone Everything Minds Way Diluted Ourselves Scared See About Online How Get Interact Really Now

When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in. Feist

You World Big Sister Mouth Corner Kick Out Brother Observe Underdog Like Beck Felt His Friends Hang Situations Just Being Where Soak Little Room Realize Your Keep Shut

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative. Feist

Good You Creative Sometimes Remember Think Kid Hiding Bored Couch Forces Course Because Doing Get Behind Being Place Little

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first. Feist

Myself First Living Wrote Verse Suddenly Found Second

As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you. Feist

Life Future Time You Become Past Older Awareness Lifting New Crushing Shift Lot Get Wheel Fortune Present

There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that. Feist

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

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 doesn't feel familiar any more. Feist

Life Good You Alien Own Living Alienated Inside More Exciting Feel Like Surreal Familiar Any Interesting Landscape Your

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me. Feist

Good Me You Man Impossible Old Videos Moon Other Dancer Dancing Way Visible Songs Naive Make Sound Than Any Wanted Really Working Notion Elegance Choreographer

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 it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends. Feist

Work Music Broken People Old Big Healthy Few Old Friends Luck Intimate One-On-One Pretty Pot Only Scene Supper Stuff Like Another Comfortable Friends Very Few People Being Different Social Different Level Among Level

The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song. Feist

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

Great Crazy Joy Simple Pure Stupid Monsters Dancing Pure Joy About Great Place Buddies Around His Chickens Bunch Walking Irony Just Place Fun Whole Ridiculous Street Four Sesame Number Sesame Street

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

Buy You Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Enough Spells Way Say Hood Something Prophecy Casting Almost Like Sing Self-Fulfilling Becomes Go Cloak Times Going Mean Now Necessarily

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