Feist Quotes

Quotes about:

• 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, Metal Fans

  47 Copy quote

• 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

  "Headed for the top". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

  17 Copy quote

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

  Feist

  Knowing, Together, Pieces

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  "Feist: A Pop Star With A Punk-Rock Past". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 30, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.

  Feist

  Crazy, Writing, Bubbles

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

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

  Feist

  London, Charmed, Dickens

  "Feist: 'I was basically raised by the Muppets'". Interview with Gareth Grundy, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

  8 Copy quote

• I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.

  Feist

  Past, Years, Two

  Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Feist

  Simplicity, Joy, Littles

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

• I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

  Feist

  Digging, Nostalgic, Trunks

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Beautiful, Crazy, Years

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

• It may be years until the day
  My dreams will match up with my pay.

  Feist

  Dream, Years, May

  Song: Mushaboom, Album: Let It Die, 2005

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.

  Feist

  Thinking, Ideas, Knowing

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

  Feist

  Grateful, Chance, Familiarity

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.

  Feist

  Zero, Fall, Forever

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.

  Feist

  Confused, Cities, Interesting

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

  Feist

  Growing Up, Cities, Lines

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Wine, Doctors, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.

  Feist

  Ties, Bows, Chords

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• I really love watching the 70s live performance TV series "The Midnight Special" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Those are the best performances you've ever seen, and they sound incredible.

  Feist

  Special, Sound, Midnight

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

• It's amazing when you find a photo of your grandparents when they were young because it's black and white and the care that they put into their appearance back then was so grown up and specific to that era.

  Feist

  Black And White, Grandparent, Care

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

• When I stopped touring, it was like trying to stop a bullet train or a giant lead ball falling from a 100 stories up - it's momentum and it doesn't just stop. I drew a line in the calendar and made it a brick wall and just stopped dead. There was no other way. It would've taken another 100 years to slow down slowly. I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

  Feist

  Wall, Fall, Taken

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

• I just went to Europe, spent a year traveling, and then I came home with a finished album and said, "Hey everyone I'm back!" I gave everyone their lighters from Luxembourg, gave them the postcards from Italy and Rome, then said, "Hey look, I made a record, too" and played it for them. The general reaction was shock, because it was so different from what they've known me to do.

  Feist

  Home, Rome, Years

  Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

Page 1 of 3

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin