Jeff Tweedy
Jeff Tweedy
Jeffrey Scot "Jeff" Tweedyis an American songwriter, musician, and record producer best known as the leader of the band Wilco...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth25 August 1967
CityBelleville, IL
CountryUnited States of America
art bread changes data listener loaf music perceive piece puts steals subjective together until work
A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.
art move power regardless
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
american-musician certain failure life notion somehow
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
few glenn songs surprise
Glenn will probably come out and do a few songs with me, but I kind of like to keep it a surprise if it is going to happen.
tortured
I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
change evolve honestly music reflect
We try to honestly reflect what we're like, ... You evolve and change over 10 years, and you try and make the music reflect that.
american-musician
I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.
bigger gets nature playing repertoire
By the nature of playing by yourself, my repertoire gets a lot bigger than what it is with the band, that's for sure,
records pay attention
I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.
people radio internet
Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that.
people hearing firsts
Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.
song writing thinking
I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar.
mean eye thinking
If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.
impact records eras
When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.