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What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

Andrew Bird

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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
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Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all
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I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.
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I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.
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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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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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Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
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I'm just trying to get my body in shape so that I can handle it. It's a very physically demanding thing. I've been doing it for 16 years, so I know what I'm going into now. I'm trying to stay calm and not panic.
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I'm a terrible Scrabble player.
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I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.
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