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Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.
Feist
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Feist
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 13
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Singer-Songwriter
Amherst
Nova Scotia
Leslie Feist
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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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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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There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi.
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I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.
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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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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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I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.
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I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay.
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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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