Leslie Feist (Feist) Quotes
Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I love writing songs.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.
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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
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I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
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I like to Instagram my dogs! I also get excited to post behind-the-scenes photos from when I was filming something.
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Indian food is a luxury on tour.
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I'm a lover of songs.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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Acting has never excited me.
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Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.
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The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.
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Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.
