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Sometimes the word dictated the melody.
Andrew Bird
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Andrew Bird
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 11
Fiddler
Film Editor
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Andrew Wegman Bird
Andrew W. Bird
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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.
Andrew Bird
People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.
Andrew Bird
There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive.
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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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I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
Andrew Bird
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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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
Andrew Bird
Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating?
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The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'
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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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Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.
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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.
Andrew Bird
If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.
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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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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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I'm not a home-studio guy. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.
Andrew Bird
The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, Oh, crap. It's really better if they could both be kind of able to compromise, but the melodies, even more recently, they come out very fully cast and formed.
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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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I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.
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