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I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

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
Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
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Andrew Wegman Bird
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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
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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 think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.
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The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, Oh, crap. It's really better if they could both be kind of able to compromise, but the melodies, even more recently, they come out very fully cast and formed.
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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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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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No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
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The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
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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 haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in their own right. They're all complete individuals. They're not just a pick-up band. They all have their own thing going on.
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I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
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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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Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment.
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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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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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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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I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.
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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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