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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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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
Fiddler
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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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Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.
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I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.
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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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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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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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Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.
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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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If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.
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Sometimes the word dictated the melody.
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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 music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.
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There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.
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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.
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Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.
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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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Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.
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I also don't believe that everything happens for a reason, which is in a similar category of world-views.
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When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.
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