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All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
Andrew Bird
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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
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Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating?
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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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Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
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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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The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, Oh, crap. It's really better if they could both be kind of able to compromise, but the melodies, even more recently, they come out very fully cast and formed.
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