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Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

Andrew Bird

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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
Fiddler
Film Editor
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Jazz Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Andrew Wegman Bird
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When I start asking my friends, What do you think this means? And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like apocryphal, for instance.
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The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?
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If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.
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The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
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Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.
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I really like the sound of analog things where clearly there's something being touched. You can sense that something is handmade. So much with digital, there's a disconnect.
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Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.
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Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.
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The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.
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I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.
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I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.
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Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.
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I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
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I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.
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It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, Great, I get to remake my song.
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The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
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You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.
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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band, per se. It's become a completely different thing. And it's not just simply an effect. It's just a very surprisingly intuitive thing.
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The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.
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I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.
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