Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird
Andrew Wegman Birdis an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was initially known through his work with the band Squirrel Nut Zippers before forming Bowl of Fire, and is now best known as a solo musician. Bird's primary instrument is the violin, but he is also proficient at other instruments including whistling, guitar, and the glockenspiel. He wrote "The Whistling Caruso" for The Muppets and performed the whistling heard in both the film and the soundtrack. Bird composed the score...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth11 July 1973
CityLake Forest, IL
CountryUnited States of America
The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.
Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.
I'm a terrible Scrabble player.
I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.
Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.
There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier record. Or "Glass Figurine." That's my version of a relationship song.
I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.