Words matter. These are the best Jeff Tweedy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
I don’t believe every download is a lost sale.
I guess I don’t think there’s any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
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.
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you’re not.
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.
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.
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
We’d been noticing how much more important the internet had become – once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let’s just stream it for free ourselves.
I didn’t want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
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.
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.
