“I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electricity out. We had this oil lantern that had been in my grandfather's homestead at the turn of the century, before there even was electricity. He'd bring it down off the top shelf, and we'd always play cards.” PlayWholeWould BeKidsTurnsHouseCenturyStormOilCardsShakesGrandfatherLightningElectricityShelvesThunderMy GrandfatherLanternsThunder And Lightning Author:Feist
“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.” LinesInterestingCitiesBreathsCleanConfusedConcreteBricksGet RealMortarReally Short Author:Feist
“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.” LinesCitiesGrowing UpGrowingGreenSpotsBetween The Lines Author:Feist
“I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France this year, and it was truly the most crazy, beautiful, bizarre place I've ever been.” YearsHumansBeautifulCrazyFranceGiantsFascinatingVillageBizarreMedieval Author:Feist
“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.” PeopleIfsNeedsPersonsPaperEatingDoctorsWineCheese Author:Feist
“I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.” ThinkingIdeasWholeKnowingVillageContributing Author:Feist
“I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.” BitsHittingKeyboardsInvisibility Author:Feist
“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.” LittlesPerfectionNotesGuitarSimplicityCaughtMeatOrgansCaught UpPotatoesMeat And Potatoes Author:Feist
“There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.” CertainTiesResolveBowsChordsUnanswered Author:Feist
“Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.” IfsHomeKidsParentMinesUnderstoodMy FriendsFocusedPunkReservationsRobbing Author:Daughn Gibson
