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I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
Andrew Bird
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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
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Andrew Wegman Bird
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More quotes by Andrew Bird
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.
Andrew Bird
Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.
Andrew Bird
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.
Andrew Bird
Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.
Andrew Bird
With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.
Andrew Bird
I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.
Andrew Bird
I'm not a home-studio guy. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.
Andrew Bird
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
The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.
Andrew Bird
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
Andrew Bird
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
Andrew Bird
Sometimes the word dictated the melody.
Andrew Bird
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?
Andrew Bird
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.
Andrew Bird
The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I'm still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.
Andrew Bird
I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.
Andrew Bird
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
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
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
Andrew Bird
I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.
Andrew Bird
