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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
Fiddler
Film Editor
Guitarist
Jazz Musician
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
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Andrew Wegman Bird
Andrew W. Bird
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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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Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.
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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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The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.
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The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.
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I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
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People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.
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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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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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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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The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
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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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I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet. Then that gets my imagination going.
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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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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 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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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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