"I don't write poetry and then strum some……" — Andrew Bird
"I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords."
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32 Quotes by Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird has 32 quotes on this site.
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Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application…
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Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all
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Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it…
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You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring…
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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
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All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a…
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Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to…
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Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
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Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind…
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I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
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I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is…
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I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
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More Chords Quotes
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one of 284 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
— Annie Besant
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
— David Bowie
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always…
— David Bowie
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The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to…
— Kobe Bryant
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All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
— David Byrne
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears.…
— Albert Camus
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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not…
— Kate Chopin
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
— Leonard Cohen
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There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was…
— Tori Amos
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Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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