183 Quotes by Andrew Bird

I’ve literally opened it up to suggestions and it’s totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don’t need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you’re showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.

It’s like you don’t know you’re making a record unless you’re half-killing yourself.

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.

The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It’s hard trying to keep it together.

I haven’t had that many people onstage for a while, and I’m looking forward to that. They’re all such creative musicians in their own right. They’re all complete individuals. They’re not just a pick-up band. They all have their own thing going on.

I’ve never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn’t read very well. I’d have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

I don’t like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I’m making the record.

I don’t write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

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