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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Andrew Bird

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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
Fiddler
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Jazz Musician
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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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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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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.
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The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.
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The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?
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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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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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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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Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
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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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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.
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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 anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'
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With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.
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No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
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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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I'm a terrible Scrabble player.
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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
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Sometimes the word dictated the melody.
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