There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
From Andrew Bird
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.
Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
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.
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
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.
I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
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