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
chords convincing forget less lyrics mental obviously remember spend spent time written
You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.
art move power regardless
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'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.
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.
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.
good life
I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.
few glenn songs surprise
Glenn will probably come out and do a few songs with me, but I kind of like to keep it a surprise if it is going to happen.
change evolve honestly music reflect
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.
tortured
I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
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.
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.