Andrew Bird Quotes
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The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
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I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
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Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
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There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.
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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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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.
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I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.
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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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The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
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The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
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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.