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
thieves absurd music-is
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
past thinking rocks
It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.
lying wish knows
I know my lies are always wishes.
song people aspiration
My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.
lying fall love-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.
aquariums drinkers
I am an American aquarium drinker
song writing 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.
song writing thinking
I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.
alive ifs dies
You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.
letting-go mean forget
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 I make, the better.
writing thinking people
To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I know now that I didn’t know when I was younger — and that is that you have to have a life to write about one. If you’re more worried about having experiences so you can write about them, I think you’re kinda being ridiculous, and I think a lot of young people look at it like that.
ideas way poetic
I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.
want what-you-want
What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.
thinking rocks people
It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.