Jeff Tweedy Quotes

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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…
• You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.
• All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.
• What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.
• 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…
• 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…
• I don't believe every download is a lost sale.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.
• 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…
• 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…
• Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
• I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
• 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.
• 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,…

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