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
basically finishing recorded vocal
We're finishing it this week, ... It's all recorded and is basically down to doing the vocal overdubs and mixing.
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We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.
records pay attention
I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.
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.
salt grain-of-salt records
I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.
people records enough
I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.
thinking records done
For the most part I stand by all of records. I just always like the one I've done most recently the best and I think that's the whole point.
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The only way you can sell 10 million Britney Spears records is to convince kids that it's something they need to have as part of their identity. It's not about the music at that point.
help sun
I know you've been out in the sun all day, but you could help out more.
dismal hope level maintained music
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
musical time
I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.
life music obsessed relationship rock seeing surrounds understand ways
I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.
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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.
call considered country listened people
I've never considered us a country band, ... Even after this record, people still call us a country band. Have they listened to this record?