Search - Andrew Bird :: Armchair Apocrypha

Bird in a tree

Andrew Brunton | Rochester, NY | 11/21/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There are some people who it seems music just flows through. Melody seems to come so easy that it is almost involuntary, evolutionary, like the bird singing in the tree. There are certain people who are able to write so prolifically and so beautifully that to comprehend you have to accept the fact that no person could hold that much beauty, talent or passion inside. Instead you are made to see that the beauty exists outside them, and their talent is their ability to channel it onto a page or through a speaker, and their passion is to project it at you. Andrew Bird is one of these people.



I imagine that he understood the violin before he picked it up for the first time, that the guitar began to play when he first laid eyes upon it, and that the song burst into flames no sooner than he had written it on the page; except that I know they all came into reality with his hard work. I would hope that Bird never stops making beautiful music, except that I know he can't. I just hope that he continues to project it at me, and that he never falls out from the branches of that tree."