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I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.

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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Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
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There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.
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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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I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.
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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 still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
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Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.
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Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
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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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The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
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The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.
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Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.
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Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.
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I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.
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I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.
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I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
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There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.
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Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
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I really like the sound of analog things where clearly there's something being touched. You can sense that something is handmade. So much with digital, there's a disconnect.
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