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Feist  Quotes
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

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CultureFight
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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

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InternetMindsOurselves
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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,...

—Feist

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MindTimes
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I didn’t really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

—Feist

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ReadUntil
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

—Feist

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Joy
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, ‘Everything will be fine,’ but you can also be in a situation and...

—Feist

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

—Feist

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GettingSongWorthy
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I’ve not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you’re recording, and how you live while you’re there is what appeals to me.

—Feist

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ItselfWhile
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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...

—Feist

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Friends
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I made the first Feist album in ’98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.

—Feist

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FarFriendsPoint
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‘Metals’ has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I’m growing the muscles I want to grow again.

—Feist

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AgainSelf
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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

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AgainstHeadPoint
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There’s a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don’t know where it came from, and I don’t understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it’s going to sting when it flips,...

—Feist

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AlmostCrazyUnderstand
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I’d been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I’d just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It’s like if you were to lift a 100-pound...

—Feist

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HalfLeftYear
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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...

—Feist

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AlmostMeanTimes
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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

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MachineSaw
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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...

—Feist

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True
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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

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ExampleRealityTv
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I’m saying?

—Feist

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OpinionsSaying
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Since I was 19, I’ve always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I’ll be lucky and there’ll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

—Feist

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ReasonSinceWhile
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When I did ‘1,2,3,4’ on ‘Sesame Street’ they’d rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, ‘Counting to four? That’s where we’re going with this?’ Then they sent...

—Feist

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BeautifulFourSong
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You’re an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you’re a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

—Feist

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GoesGuessSongs
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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...

—Feist

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

—Feist

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ChoiceChosen
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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...

—Feist

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FeltFriendsRealize
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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...

—Feist

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SimpleSong
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When I first played ‘1234’ it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it’s ridiculous to say that now, but...

—Feist

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FeltMeanSong
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I’m a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn’t as insidious as American nationalism, though. It’s good natured. It’s all about maple syrup, not war.

—Feist

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Though
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I need therapy after writing. It’s like leaking blood from a stone. It’s brutally difficult but worth it.

—Feist

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BloodDifficultWorth
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‘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...

—Feist

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BitMindSort
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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...

—Feist

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CreativeRemember
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I live and die by puns.

—Feist

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DiePuns
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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...

—Feist

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CrazyFun
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When I wrote ‘Mushaboom’, I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

—Feist

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FoundLivingSecond
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I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There’s merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now,...

—Feist

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FriendOnceThree
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other...

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BookNight
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There’s nothing better than not knowing what’s going to happen until you put the pieces together.

—Feist

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HappenTogetherUntil
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After ‘Sesame Street,’ it’s a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I’m talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting...

—Feist

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FactTalking
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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...

—Feist

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EnergyPlaying
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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...

—Feist

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PlayingTalkingWhose
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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...

—Feist

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Living
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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...

—Feist

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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...

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HappenSeaSong
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Commercialism isn’t challenging creatively; it’s only challenging in a stamina way.

—Feist

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CreativelyStamina
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