Author: Jeff Tweedy

Quotes

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

- Jeff Tweedy

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.

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

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

- Jeff Tweedy

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

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

- Jeff Tweedy

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

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

- Jeff Tweedy

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 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

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.

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.

- Jeff Tweedy

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

- Jeff Tweedy

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.

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.

- Jeff Tweedy

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