Quote

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Andrew Bird

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
Fiddler
Film Editor
Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
Illinois
Andrew Wegman Bird
Andrew W. Bird
History
Sense
Biology
Didn
Academic
Kind
Patience
Always
Liked
Honestly
Questions
Bigs

More quotes by Andrew Bird

Image
When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.
Andrew Bird
Image
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.
Andrew Bird
Image
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
Andrew Bird
Image
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.
Andrew Bird
Image
Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.
Andrew Bird
Image
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.
Andrew Bird
Image
I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.
Andrew Bird
Image
There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper credit and that's not true anymore - it used to be. A lot of jazz musicians would get respect in Europe.
Andrew Bird
Image
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
Andrew Bird
Image
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.
Andrew Bird
Image
I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.
Andrew Bird
Image
Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.
Andrew Bird
Image
I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.
Andrew Bird
Image
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.
Andrew Bird
Image
Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment.
Andrew Bird
Image
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
Andrew Bird
Image
Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all
Andrew Bird
Image
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
Andrew Bird
Image
The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'
Andrew Bird
Image
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.
Andrew Bird