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Sometimes the word dictated the melody.

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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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Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.
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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 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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The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
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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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The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I'm still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.
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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 also don't believe that everything happens for a reason, which is in a similar category of world-views.
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I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.
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Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.
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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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It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, Great, I get to remake my song.
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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 earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.
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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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Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.
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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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No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
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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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