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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Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.
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A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the stuff that gets left off usually contained the germ of something good but failed to reach a satisfactory state by the recording stage.
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My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.
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First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.
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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.
