Andrew Bird Quotes

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• You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I’m going, or when I’ve lived in a place so long that there’s no chance I could possibly get lost.

  Andrew Bird

  Long, Satisfaction, Littles

  "Andrew Bird Talks ‘Break It Yourself,’ And His Obsession With Maps". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

  Andrew Bird

  Thinking, Littles, Sometimes

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• Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

  Andrew Bird

  Singing, Sound, Different

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2006.

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• If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I think, "I have to put this in the song. I have no choice but to mention Greek Cypriots in this song." It's a little internal challenge to myself. Like creating little imaginary rituals in yourself to help the song go from nonexisting to existing.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Thinking, Creating

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Morning, Trying, Shapes

  "A Conversation with Andrew Bird: Crafting Music and Chicago Memories". Interview with Sarah Brooks, thirdcoastreview.com. Setember 2, 2016.

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• There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

  Andrew Bird

  Interesting, Nomenclature

  "Play that funky glockenspiel" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2007.

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Thinking, Choices, Matter

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

  Andrew Bird

  Records, Release

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.

  Andrew Bird

  Thinking, Trying, Life Is

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

  Andrew Bird

  Definitions, Elusive

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• I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.

  Andrew Bird

  Numbers, Attention, Pay

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

  Andrew Bird

  Honesty, Believe, May

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.

  Andrew Bird

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting Conversation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Strong, Dark, Useless

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

  Andrew Bird

  Imagination, Literature, Dry

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend that there's someone outside with a gun that's saying, 'Don't come out until you write something.'"

  Andrew Bird

  Writing, Gun, What If

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Motivation, Crazy, Inspiration

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• Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

  Andrew Bird

  Important, Social

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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'

  Andrew Bird

  Baby, Too Much, Aging

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• In New York, I'm playing in a church, solo, doing instrumental stuff. There's talk of doing more, like, installation-type things with some of the specimen horns I've played through. Just filling a room in a museum with these horn-speaker sculptures and then making loops that run all day, and you walk around the room and sort of mix the sound by where you stand. That's all way in the future, but that kind of stuff is a different way of thinking about performing.

  Andrew Bird

  Running, New York, Thinking

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Believe, Writing, Lines

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Hard Work, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Play, Appreciate

  "The Multi-Instrumentalist Returns: A Conversation With Andrew Bird". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

  Andrew Bird

  Writing, Sometimes, Enjoy

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

  Andrew Bird

  Writing, Hopeful, Motivated

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2006.

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