"Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies."

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Source : "A Conversation with Andrew Bird: Crafting Music and Chicago Memories". Interview with Sarah Brooks, thirdcoastreview.com. Setember 2, 2016.

Andrew Bird

#Morning Quotes #Trying Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!”
“What keeps me going is goals.”
“Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.”

Source : Oliver Hazard Perry, Citizen of Massachusetts (1834). “A review of a pamphlet purporting to be Documents in relation to the differences which subsisted between the late Commodore Oliver H. Perry, and Captain Jesse D. Elliott”, p.24
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”

Source : "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". Book by Dee Brown. Chapter 12, 1970.
“Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success”
“You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.”
“I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.”
“It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.”

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