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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.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Always Being Chance Could Disappointed Enjoying Figuring Get Going Happen Hope Know Little Lived Long Lost No Chance Out Place Possibly Satisfaction Something Too Travel Unexpected Well Where Will You

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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.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Alaska Always Been Chain Fascinated Flying Greenland Hours Icy Instance Intrigued Islands Just Kid Like Lonelier Maps Most Over Places Planet Recently Stared

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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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Topics: Happens Instrument Main Myself Play Songwriter Think Violin Well Who I Think

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In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Alarming Articulate Book Class Front Get Give Had Painfully Report School Shy Soon Suddenly Up Very

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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Dry Fairly Favorite Framework History Imagination Like Literature Read Rest

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Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Capacity Cliche Deception Full Honest Just Melodies Only Say Some Subtext Them Tricky Vernacular Words I Can

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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.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Academic Always Big Big Questions Biology History Honestly Kind Liked Patience Questions Sense

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I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Am Enjoy Even Kinda Sense Some Sometimes Thing Though Word Writer Writing I Am

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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.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Been Drum First Guitar Interested Pedal Picked Reactions Since Snare Steel Texture Tone Up Very Violin Visceral Would

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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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Topics: Absorb Affect Became Ear Everything Expected Fact Had Huge Kind Music Musician Read

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: July 11th, 1973

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