142 Quotes by Feist

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

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    Musically, I didn’t relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there – I don’t think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

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    I’ve always been a bit wary of keyboards because there’s an invisibility to it – you’re not really hitting anything.

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    Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

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    I live and die by puns.

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    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 doesn't feel familiar any more.

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