183 Quotes by Andrew Bird

It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

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.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

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.