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I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.

Andrew Bird

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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
Fiddler
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Chicago
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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 think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
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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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I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.
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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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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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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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There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
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When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.
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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.
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