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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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Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
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Andrew Wegman Bird
Andrew W. Bird
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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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