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
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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.
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We try to honestly reflect what we're like, ... You evolve and change over 10 years, and you try and make the music reflect that.
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Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
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I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.
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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.
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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.
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I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.
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I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
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Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
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I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
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We never could understand what the problem was with people listening to your music. I thought that was the whole point.
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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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I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.