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
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.
song writing thinking
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.
song writing editing
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.
writing sublime lessons
The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.
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.
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.
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.