Andrew Bird Quotes
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
Quotes to Explore
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
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Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.
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...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.
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The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
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I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.
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The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
