183 Quotes by Andrew Bird

Sometimes I think I don’t have much choice in the matter. It’s just what happens, and I’m following my instincts the whole time.

I don’t like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, “Here’s what was happening in 1582 all over the planet.” Then that gets my imagination going.

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.

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.

There’s a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

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.

The orchestra’s an amazing instrument, but I don’t want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I’m still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.

I put a lot into my records, and I won’t release anything I’m not totally thrilled with.

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