Jeff Tweedy Quotes

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• The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to somebody else. I can't anticipate what it's going to be or how it's going to be perceived, so the quicker I let go of something I make, the better.

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  Letting Go, Mean, Forget

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• I know my lies are always wishes.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Lying, Wish, Knows

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• What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Want, What You Want

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• I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

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  Belief, Feels, Belief Systems

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.

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  Song, Writing, Editing

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• It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.

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  Thinking, Rocks, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

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  Lying, Fall, Love Is

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• You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

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  Alive, Dies, Ifs

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• I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

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  Cutting, People, Car

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

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  Ideas, Way, Poetic

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

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  Song, Writing, Want

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Thieves, Absurd, Music Is

  "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.

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• It's hard for people to see how they can change how dismal things look, but there are still wonderful things to sing about. Music is the only way we are capable of talking about the most important things.

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  People, Important, Wonderful

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I know now that I didn’t know when I was younger — and that is that you have to have a life to write about one. If you’re more worried about having experiences so you can write about them, I think you’re kinda being ridiculous, and I think a lot of young people look at it like that.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

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  People, Musician, Energy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For the most part I stand by all of records. I just always like the one I've done most recently the best and I think that's the whole point.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Thinking, Done, Records

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.

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  Thinking, Past, Rocks

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• I am an American aquarium drinker.

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  Aquariums, Drinkers

  "Song: 'I Am Trying To Break Your Heart'". 2002.

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• There's probably not any kind of music that means more to me than gospel and soul. I heard somebody say that soul music is being proud of where you're from and what you've accomplished, and letting that show. Losing some self-consciousness and ego to join something larger. I like that idea a lot, just letting it all hang out, and on this album we did our best at that.

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  Mean, Ego, Soul

  Interview With Alan Light, www.motherjones.com. May 17, 2007.

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• I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless.

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  Song, Thinking, Endless

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.

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  Song, Thinking, Acoustics

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you doing it just for your ego?

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Thinking, Ego

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, People, Aspiration

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar.

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  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

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  Shoes, Tennis, Trying

  "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.

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