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Andrew Bird Quotes

American - Musician | July 11, 1973 -

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

Guitar Steel Violin First Drum Up

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.

Music Kind Everything Affect Fact

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.

Together Collaboration Performance

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.

Cool Rock Nails Band Same Like

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. I'm happy to be in that category.

Happy You Down Too Much Say Rock

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

Myself Think Play Violin Well Who

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.

Music Together Looking Kind Way

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

Believe Worth You Down Kind Write

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

Good Think Sometimes My Own Own Too

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.

Yourself Book Better Getting Better

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

Song Appreciate Play Jazz Within

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.

Good Fun Musicians You Done Cry

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