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I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

Andrew Bird

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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
Fiddler
Film Editor
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Jazz Musician
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Chicago
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Andrew Wegman Bird
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With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.
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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'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend that there's someone outside with a gun that's saying, 'Don't come out until you write something.'
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Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.
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I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.
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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 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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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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I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.
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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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I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.
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I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
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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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The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.
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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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