Andrew Bird Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Andrew Bird quote about:
- Challenges,
- Fun,
- Imagination,
- Jazz,
- Songs,
- Writing,
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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.”
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“The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I'm still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.”
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“I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.”
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“Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.”
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“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.”
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“I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.”
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“I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.”
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“I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.”
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“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.”
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“I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.”
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“My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.”
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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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“There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.”
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“Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.”
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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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“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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“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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“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.”
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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'”
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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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“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.”
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“I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.”
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“I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.”
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“Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all”
-- Andrew Bird
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