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• I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Done, Feels

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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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.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Shoes, Tennis, Trying

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Thinking, Want

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.

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• We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

  Jeff Tweedy

  People, Scary, Listening

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Attention, Records, Pay

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Thinking, Kind

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• I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Important, Connections

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• I don't know where people get the idea that every Wilco record is supposed to have drama. OK, I guess historically speaking we've had our fair share of ups and downs.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Drama, Ideas, People

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• The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Writing, Sublime, Lessons

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• All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Lying, Wish, Knows

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