Top 43 Quotes by Andrew Bird

Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

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.

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

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

There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.