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I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.

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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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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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 definitely have to give myself permission, like on Master Swarm, to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?
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I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.
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I'm a terrible Scrabble player.
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I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song? That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.
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I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.
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I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
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You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I’m going, or when I’ve lived in a place so long that there’s no chance I could possibly get lost.
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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 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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Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.
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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'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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The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.
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I also don't believe that everything happens for a reason, which is in a similar category of world-views.
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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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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
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