Andrew Bird Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Night

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

• 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.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Doom And Gloom

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

• 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.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Struggle, Writing

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

• I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

  Andrew Bird

  Writing, Fit, Chords

• 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.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Simple

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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

• There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

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