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Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.
Andrew Bird
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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
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Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
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Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
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I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
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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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