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Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird
American Musician
Born: Jul 11, 1973
Been Just Me Music Words You
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In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate. Andrew Bird
Class Book School Give Had Soon Up Very Articulate Report Get Front Painfully Suddenly Alarming Shy
The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration. Andrew Bird
You Together Problem Before Collaboration About Only Performance Like Hours Sound Real Real Collaboration Get Orchestra Working Two Pull
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. Andrew Bird
Band Same Thing Other Indie About Nails Like Another Rock Effectively Same Cool Thing
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin. Andrew Bird
Myself Think Main Songwriter Instrument Well Happens Who Play Violin
Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together. Andrew Bird
Music Together Looking Stage Way Futile Kind Put Bands Little Poorly Amplified
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering. Andrew Bird
You Worth Down Believe Kind Write Remembering Absurd Still Line
Music as a social conduit has always been important to me. Andrew Bird
Music Me Important Always Been Conduit Social
I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes. Andrew Bird
Good Sometimes Own Think Too My Own Still Intense Little
I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself. Andrew Bird
You Yourself Book Better Everything Give Something Onstage Read Audience Still Go Jump Manage Getting Getting Better Mean
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 Jazz Backgrounds Folks Parameters Come Spontaneity Within Least Pop Pop Song Play Appreciate
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
Good You Musicians Will Share Until Cry Make Done Fun
What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear. Andrew Bird
Music You Eyes See Making Hear Effect Going Your Profound
Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid. Andrew Bird
History Topic Kid Obscure Since Like Know Most Always Doing Been Any Impulse Maybe Just Whether Explain Places Little Little Kid Really Choose Less Traveled Why
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. Andrew Bird
Time Day Creative Situation Nothing Sights City About Most Foreign Sounds Hearing Off Fertile Walking Just Unfamiliar After Just Walking Place Agenda Show Imagine
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
Me You Writing Communicate Somehow Songs True Idea Because Depressed Really Need
Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies. Andrew Bird
Time Morning Me Every Every Time Lyrics Melodies Shape Occur Up Get Trying Start
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
Time Myself Me You Together Own Other Spend Project Nuts Some Entire Finish My Own Had Songs Head Counterpart Developing Because Within Go Lot Really Working Help Need Pull
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. Andrew Bird
Three Singing Ways Making Sound Just Different Whistling Different Ways Playing Violin
The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter. Andrew Bird
Work Way Singer-Songwriter
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. Andrew Bird
Words Top Some Poetry Write Fit Then Chords
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. Andrew Bird
Good Me You Water Good Taste Become Bit Machine Temperature Properly Clean New Go New Place Salty Taste Tastes Just Anytime Place Little Little Bit Used Awful Right
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again. Andrew Bird
Music Comforting Practice Bach About Something Putting Over Sheet Going Again Room Stand Your Playing
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots. Andrew Bird
First Those Classical Check Sound Still Notes Roots Play Start
There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science. Andrew Bird
Science Words Lot Interesting
My head is full of shifting patterns and polyrhythmic stuff; but I want to use all acoustic instruments and create this kind of tapestry of interlocking lulling parts. Andrew Bird
Shifting Kind Head Stuff Instruments Parts Tapestry Want Patterns Acoustic Create Use Full

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