183 Quotes by Andrew Bird

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

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.

Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don't even know what they consider the hook in that song ["Oh No"] - "that delivers the hook sooner." So I'm like, "Okay. I see that." And they were all walking on eggshells, like is this going to be sacrilegious to me or something, to mess with this art I've created? And I'm like, "Great. I get to tinker with it, I get to mess with my song some more."

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.