Author: Jeff Tweedy

Quotes

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'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

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

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

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 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

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 on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

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 on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

- 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

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