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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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I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
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The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.
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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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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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Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all
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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.
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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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There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.
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There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
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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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You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I’m going, or when I’ve lived in a place so long that there’s no chance I could possibly get lost.
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I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
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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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I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.
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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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Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
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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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I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.
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When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.
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I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
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