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• The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

  Andrew Bird

  Play, Roots, Sound

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• Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

  Andrew Bird

  Failing, Humans, Factors

  Song: Tables And Chairs, 2005

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• Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

  Andrew Bird

  Sexy, Guitar, Vintage

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• 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?

  Andrew Bird

  Wind, Bird, Pieces

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

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• Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

  Andrew Bird

  Kind, Biology, Academic

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

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

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  Writing, Fit, Chords

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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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• 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.

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  Running, New York, Thinking

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

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Fun, Musician, Done

  "The Multi-Instrumentalist Returns". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment.

  Andrew Bird

  Reality, Differences, Groups

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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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  Song, Inspire, Dissatisfaction

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

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• 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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  Strong, Able, Be Kind

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

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• I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

  Andrew Bird

  Player, Scrabble, Terrible

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• The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

  Andrew Bird

  Singers, Way, Singer-songwriters

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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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  Practice, Comforting, Rooms

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• There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier record. Or "Glass Figurine." That's my version of a relationship song.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Taken, Glasses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

  Andrew Bird

  Thinking, Play, Violin

  "Interview: Andrew Bird And The Concept Of Cultivated Precariousness". Interview with Jay Donovan, techcrunch.com. March 6, 2012.

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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.

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  Eye, Profound, Music Is

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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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  Thinking, Violin, Tone

  "Andrew Bird On Songwriting, Chicago And Hideout’s 15th Anniversary Block Party" by Lauren Drell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Fun, Twists

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Deception, Honest, Cliche

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

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• A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

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  Sight, Cities, Creative

  "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 create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Challenges, Greek

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

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• A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.

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  Espresso, Water, Machines

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• With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.

  Andrew Bird

  Sound, Information, Digital

  Source: www.avclub.com

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