Andrew Bird Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Play, Sound, Records

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

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• I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?

  Andrew Bird

  Fun, Rip, Play

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

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• 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.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Three, Littles

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

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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."

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Rolling, Stones

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

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• I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don't even know what they consider the hook in that song ["Oh No"] - "that delivers the hook sooner." So I'm like, "Okay. I see that." And they were all walking on eggshells, like is this going to be sacrilegious to me or something, to mess with this art I've created? And I'm like, "Great. I get to tinker with it, I get to mess with my song some more."

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Art, Needs

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

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• I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

  Andrew Bird

  Imagination, Fiction, Modern

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

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• Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Appreciate, Vague

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

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• I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing that. I did that with "Eyeoneye" and it was almost a curse on the song for a while; I debuted it when it was half-finished in a very public way

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Thrill, Half

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Drama, Character, Epic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

  Andrew Bird

  Believe, Views, Everything Happens For A Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form, and then they got a lot of attention in Europe. A lot of bands that can't catch flies in the US have these followings in Europe, [but] it's less and less the case. American audiences are way more sophisticated and adventurous than anyone thinks that they are.

  Andrew Bird

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper credit and that's not true anymore - it used to be. A lot of jazz musicians would get respect in Europe.

  Andrew Bird

  Real, Europe, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm just trying to get my body in shape so that I can handle it. It's a very physically demanding thing. I've been doing it for 16 years, so I know what I'm going into now. I'm trying to stay calm and not panic.

  Andrew Bird

  Years, Stay Calm, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?

  Andrew Bird

  Talking, Self, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

  Andrew Bird

  Museums, Bird, Paradise

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

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• I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

  Andrew Bird

  Imagination, Research, Metaphor

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

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• Sometimes the word dictated the melody.

  Andrew Bird

  Sometimes, Melody

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• With the words, a lot of things start with questions. Some word kind of piques my interest, and I love the way it sounds, but I really don't know what it means. And I honestly don't care for a while.

  Andrew Bird

  Mean, Sound, Pique

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

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Simple

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

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• 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.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Struggle, Pops

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Struggle, Writing

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

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• Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.

  Andrew Bird

  Arbitrary, Process, Songwriting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Challenges, Littles, Ass

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.

  Andrew Bird

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Titles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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