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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
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Andrew Wegman Bird
Andrew W. Bird
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The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
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I definitely have to give myself permission, like on Master Swarm, to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?
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The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
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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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There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.
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I'm a terrible Scrabble player.
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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 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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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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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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People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.
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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 didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.
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A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.
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I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.
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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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I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
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