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
britney convince kids million music records sell spears
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
confront horrible lyrics
Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.
best good parts stuff transcend
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.
listening people problem understand
We never could understand what the problem was with people listening to your music. I thought that was the whole point.
good life
I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.