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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
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Jazz Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Andrew Wegman Bird
Andrew W. Bird
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It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.
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Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
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I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
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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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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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All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
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I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.
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I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
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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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With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.
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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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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band, per se. It's become a completely different thing. And it's not just simply an effect. It's just a very surprisingly intuitive thing.
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Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.
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The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
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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.
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I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.
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Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
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I'm a terrible Scrabble player.
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I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.
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