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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
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With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.
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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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I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
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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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I have the barn, it's just kind of like a studio. Almost all artists have la studio to work in, and that's really what it is. A place to get away. I'll spend maybe four days out there if I can, just completely immersed - like where I don't bathe or brush my teeth for a few days, just get up and make coffee and experiment until the sun goes down.
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I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.
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I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.
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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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Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
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I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.
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I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.
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I'm a terrible Scrabble player.
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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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I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.
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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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