Quote

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.

Jeff Tweedy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jeff Tweedy
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 25
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Television Actor
Belleville
Illinois
Jeffrey Scot Tweedy
Life
Seems
Lessons
Edits
Able
Products
Writes
Without
Anybody
Sublime
Great
Moment
Allowing
Writing
Learn
Lesson
Something
Write
Creates
Make
Stuff
Anyway
Good
Moments
Product
Edit

More quotes by Jeff Tweedy

Image
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.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
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.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
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.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
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.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
I am an American aquarium drinker.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
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.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
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.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
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.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
I know my lies are always wishes.
Jeff Tweedy
Image
With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it together. That's kind of sad if you love someone, set them free, right?
Jeff Tweedy