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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
Andrew Bird
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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
Fiddler
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Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
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Andrew Wegman Bird
Andrew W. Bird
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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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Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
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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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There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
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Sometimes the word dictated the melody.
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I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.
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There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive.
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I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
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I'm a terrible Scrabble player.
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Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.
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I definitely have to give myself permission, like on Master Swarm, to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?
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The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.
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What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
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Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.
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I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.
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I haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in their own right. They're all complete individuals. They're not just a pick-up band. They all have their own thing going on.
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I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet. Then that gets my imagination going.
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I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.
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Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.
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I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.
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