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Andrew Bird Biography

Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American violinist, singer, and songwriter. He was a member of the bands Squirrel Nut Zippers and Bowl of Fire before pursuing a solo career. His main instrument is violin, but he also plays guitar and glockenspiel and is an expert whistler. He wrote and performed "The Whistling Caruso" for The Muppets movie and composed the score for the television series Baskets. Andrew Bird currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Katherine and their son Sam.

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Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.

Character, Drama, Epic, Like, Norman

I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.

Catchy, Experimental, Nugget, Simple, Song, Writing

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.

Hour, Instrument, Thinking, Tone, Violin

With the words, a lot of things start with questions. Some word kind of piques my interest, and I love the way it sounds, but I really don't know what it means. And I honestly don't care for a while.

Mean, Pique, Piques, Sound, Sounds, Things

I'm not a home-studio guy. 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.

Developing, Home, Nuts, Project, Song, Songs

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

Fertile, Imagination, Metaphor, Patience, Research, Words

When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.

Alive, Comfortable, Completely, Feels, Onstage

The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.

Feet, Looks, Earth, Down, Dense

I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.

Attention, Head, Numbers, Pay

There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing that. I did that with "Eyeoneye" and it was almost a curse on the song for a while; I debuted it when it was half-finished in a very public way

Debuted, Eyeoneye, Half, Song, Thrill, Unequaled

I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.

Devices, Impulses, Song, Struggle, Write, Writing

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

Jittery, Kind, Records, Stupid, Time

There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.

Hear, Instant, Song, Thinking, Wanting, Writing

Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating?

Ambient, Anyway, Bird, Kind, Pieces, Wind

What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

Bird, Birds, Museums, Paradise, Passenger, Pigeons

There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper credit and that's not true anymore - it used to be. A lot of jazz musicians would get respect in Europe.

Europe, Giving, Hold, Real, Respect

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, Indie Rock, Nails, Rocks, Same, Thing

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

Singers, Way, Singer-Songwriters, Work, Confessional

When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.

Actually, Dictionary, Interesting Conversation, Like, Mean, Thinking

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

Good, Intense, Littles, Sometimes, Think, Thinking

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