"I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words……" — Andrew Bird
"I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive."
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32 Quotes by Andrew Bird
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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 don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
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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 Archaic Quotes
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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold…
— Camille Paglia
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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.…
— Dee Hock
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I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the…
— Jimmy Hoffa
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural…
— H.G. Wells
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Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but…
— Guillaume Faye
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It's so archaic. It's just, like, bizarre to me. I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children…
— Scarlett Johansson
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Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering…
— Gary Valentine
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and…
— Edward Abbey
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It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the…
— Jacques Derrida
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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
— Bridget Riley
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A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution…
— Michelangelo Signorile
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As the New Earth approaches, our way of thinking is being challenged more and more. The Veil is thinning and…
— Dolores Cannon
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