Andrew Bird Quotes
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
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For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art.
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Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.
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I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.
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There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
