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  • 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.

    "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.
  • You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

  • 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.

    "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.
  • Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

    "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.
  • 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.

    "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.
  • I am an American aquarium drinker.

    "Song: 'I Am Trying To Break Your Heart'". 2002.
  • I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless.

    "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.

    "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.
  • 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.

    "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.
  • 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.

    "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.
  • I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

    Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.
  • 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.

  • It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

  • I know my lies are always wishes.

  • 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.

    "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.
  • It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.

  • The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to somebody else. I can't anticipate what it's going to be or how it's going to be perceived, so the quicker I let go of something I make, the better.

  • I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • There's probably not any kind of music that means more to me than gospel and soul. I heard somebody say that soul music is being proud of where you're from and what you've accomplished, and letting that show. Losing some self-consciousness and ego to join something larger. I like that idea a lot, just letting it all hang out, and on this album we did our best at that.

    Interview With Alan Light, www.motherjones.com. May 17, 2007.
  • I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

    "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.
  • Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

  • 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.

  • I don't know where people get the idea that every Wilco record is supposed to have drama. OK, I guess historically speaking we've had our fair share of ups and downs.

  • It's hard for people to see how they can change how dismal things look, but there are still wonderful things to sing about. Music is the only way we are capable of talking about the most important things.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • 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.

    "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.
  • I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

    Source: www.avclub.com
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Jeff Tweedy

  • Born: August 25, 1967
  • Occupation: Songwriter