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 thinking kind
I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.
shoes tennis trying
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
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.
song thinking ego
That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you doing it just for your ego?
running years two
I've never been healthier. I haven't had a cigarette in two years. I run four or five miles, four or five times a week. I've been healthy and having a really good time.
song thinking people
I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're doing. It's not necessarily what you're going to get back in terms of record reviews or how people talk about your record, it's getting on the road and playing the new songs live.
salt grain-of-salt records
I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.
song thinking acoustics
I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.
song thinking endless
I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless.
belief feels belief-systems
I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.
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.
use ifs knows
I don't know if experimental is a word I would ever use comfortably.
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.
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.