Jeff Tweedy Quotes

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Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There

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.

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I don’t think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn’t good.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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I’ve been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

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I was never at my best when I was at my worst. 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.

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I don’t believe every download is a lost sale.

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Sometimes it’s liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

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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.

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I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.

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Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

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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.

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