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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.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: About Before Collaboration Get Hours Like Only Orchestra Performance Problem Pull Real Sound Together Two Working You

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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.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: About Another Band Cool Effectively Indie Like Nails Other Rock Same Same Thing Thing

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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.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: About Always Anything Baggage Category Down Found Genre Happy Inclusive Indie Just Labels Less Like Most Much Other Pin Rock Say Title Too Too Much Whatever Would You

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I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Always Anymore Brain Compass Far Got Internal Like Losing Me Organic Over Still Tactile Take Taking Technology Use Want Your

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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.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Amplified Bands Futile Kind Little Looking Music Poorly Put Stage Together Way

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

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Absurd Believe Down Kind Line Remembering Still Worth Write You

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Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Always Been Important Me Music Social

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

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Good Intense Little My Own Own Sometimes Still Think Too I Think

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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.

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Audience Better Book Everything Getting Getting Better Give Go Jump Manage Mean Onstage Read Something Still You Yourself

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

~Andrew Bird

Topics: Appreciate Backgrounds Come Folks Jazz Least Parameters Play Pop Pop Song Song Spontaneity Within

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: July 11th, 1973

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