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I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

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 think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.
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There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper credit and that's not true anymore - it used to be. A lot of jazz musicians would get respect in Europe.
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It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.
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It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, Great, I get to remake my song.
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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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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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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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