Latest Jeff Tweedy Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Mean, Ego, Soul

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

• 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.

  Jeff Tweedy

  People, Important, Wonderful

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it together. That's kind of sad; if you love someone, set them free, right?

  Jeff Tweedy

  People, Together, If You Love Someone

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Book, Remember, Surprise

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

• I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

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

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Thinking, Endless

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

• 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.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Belief, Feels, Belief Systems

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

• I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

  Jeff Tweedy

  People, Records, Enough

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

• I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Thinking, People, Support

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Ideas, Way, Poetic

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

• I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're doing. It's not necessarily what you're going to get back in terms of record reviews or how people talk about your record, it's getting on the road and playing the new songs live.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Thinking, People

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

• 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

• I don't know if experimental is a word I would ever use comfortably.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Use, Knows, Ifs

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

• 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.

• When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Impact, Different, Records

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

• Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Mean, Avant Garde, Never Change

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

• Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Hurt, Mean, Found

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

• 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.

• I've never been healthier. I haven't had a cigarette in two years. I run four or five miles, four or five times a week. I've been healthy and having a really good time.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Running, Years, Two

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

• I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Grain Of Salt, Records, Salt

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

• I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Needs, Way, Disturbed

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

• 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.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Thinking, Acoustics

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

• If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Jeff Tweedy

  People, Musician, Energy

  Source: www.avclub.com