American - Musician | July 11, 1973 -
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
Andrew Bird
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What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.
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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.
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A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.
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I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
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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 think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
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Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
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I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
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I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.
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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
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The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
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