Andrew Bird Quotes
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
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I never listened to country music growing up.
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I would put on shows for my family.
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Younger guys are just too jealous.
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It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.
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Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.
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My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.
