Jeff Tweedy famous quotes

04-12-2025

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

#Thieves #Absurd #Music Is
Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Lying #Fall #Love Is
The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to somebody else. I can't anticipate what it's going to be or how it's going to be perceived, so the quicker I let go of something Â I make, the better.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Letting Go #Mean #Forget
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

#Song #Done #Feels
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.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Song #Writing #Thinking
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

#Past #Healthy #Able
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.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Song #Thinking #Want
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

#Song #Writing #Want
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

#Song #Important #Connections
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.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Song #Thinking #Kind
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.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Shoes #Tennis #Trying
I don't believe every download is a lost sale.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Believe #Lost #Downloads
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.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#People #Scary #Listening
To be honest, Iâ€™m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like thatâ€™s really the main thing I know now that I didnâ€™t know when I was younger â€” and that is that you have to have a life to write about one. If youâ€™re more worried about having experiences so you can write about them, I think youâ€™re kinda being ridiculous, and I think a lot of young people look at it like that.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Writing #Thinking #People
What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Want #What You Want
All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Lying #Wish
You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Alive
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 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.
-- Jeff Tweedy

#Song #Writing #Editing

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