Author: Andrew Bird

Quotes

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

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

- Andrew Bird

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.

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

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

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

- Andrew Bird

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

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

- Andrew Bird

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.

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.

- Andrew Bird

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.

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.

- Andrew Bird

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

- Andrew Bird

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

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

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