Feist Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.”

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

“I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.”

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

“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.”

“If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.”

“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.”