Jeff Tweedy Quotes (14 Quotes)


    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.

    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.

    By the nature of playing by yourself, my repertoire gets a lot bigger than what it is with the band, that's for sure,

    I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

    I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.


    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.

    Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

    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.

    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

    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.

    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,

    I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.

    The new set will be the first concentrated batch of original O'Rourke material since his acclaimed 2002 solo album, Insignificance. ... He has been really busy with other people's music. I love getting to work with Jim and he has some really, really great songs on this, so I can't wait to hear it finished.

    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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