Feist Quotes
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.
Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us?
I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.
I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.
I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone
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.
And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.
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.
The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.
The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart
You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.
More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.
Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.
But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.
why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?''Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.
Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret.
Luck is when those who are prepared take advantage of the moment.
My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history.
History is written by victors, ” said Duko. “But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.
It's the problem with having a logical mind and giving women the same credit for ability as men, he mused as he dismounted. You can't contrive reasons to keep them safe.
You learn something new every day, if you just stop to pay attention.
I let my anger consume me.”“It’s understandable, ” she said.“It may be understandable, ” replied Pug, “but it is no more forgivable for being understandable.
In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.
Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline
...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.
It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It’s so much more convenient to blame others.
A man makes choices, ” Tal said.“True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered.
He knew there was only a slight difference between an armed guard and an escort, but sometimes that difference separated the honored and the condemned.
That was not the professional hatred of one warrior for another in the heat of battle, in which even beneath the hatred there still existed a certain begrudging respect.
The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects the existence of our own world.
Yes, ” said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent.
From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.
He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, ‘Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.
Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around.