183 Quotes by Andrew Bird

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.

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.

I also don’t believe that “everything happens for a reason,” which is in a similar category of world-views.

I think life is a wondrous thing. I’m happy to try pretty hard.

I’m a terrible Scrabble player.

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

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.

Sometimes I just think we’re not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.

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?