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Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.
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Feist
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 13
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Nova Scotia
Leslie Feist
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I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.
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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.
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I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.
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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.
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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 joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. Sesame Street is just a crazy great place to be.
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All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, Woo! - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.
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But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.
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With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be gone forever, but it just wasn't the right time for me to care about that.
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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. Theres a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
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You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.
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I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.
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Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.
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I know more than I knew before I didn't rest I didn't stop Did we fight or did we talk.
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I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all.
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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.
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There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.
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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 does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.
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Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.
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I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.
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