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Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.
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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Chicago
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Andrew Wegman Bird
Andrew W. Bird
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A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.
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All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
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What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
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I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.
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The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?
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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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The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.
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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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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
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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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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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The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
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Sometimes the word dictated the melody.
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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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Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment.
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Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all
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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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You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.
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Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So I've been inventing little projects and challenges to sort of kick my ass with the lyrics.
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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.
Andrew Bird
