Top 30 Mrs Tweedy Quotes
#1. I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at the university for so long that they gave him a job to keep him out of trouble.
Patrick Rothfuss
#2. I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
Jeff Tweedy
#3. I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.
Jeff Tweedy
#4. 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.
Jeff Tweedy
#5. 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.
Jeff Tweedy
#6. 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.
Jeff Tweedy
#7. I don't know if experimental is a word I would ever use comfortably.
Jeff Tweedy
#8. 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.
Jeff Tweedy
#9. 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
#10. I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless.
Jeff Tweedy
#11. I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
Jeff Tweedy
#12. 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.
Jeff Tweedy
#13. All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.
Jeff Tweedy
#14. Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.
Jeff Tweedy
#15. I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
Jeff Tweedy
#16. Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten."
My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look.
Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right.
"It's Cat," I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven."
"Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy.
Jeaniene Frost
#17. Normality may lie in being a selectively deaf self-righteous victim of your own cognitive dissonance...but then again...who wants to be an open minded but self-doubting fence-sitter paralyzed by internal conflict? life eh?
Tweedy Peanut
#18. Doctors, like all other people, are subject to prejudice and discrimination. While bias can be a problem in any profession, in medicine, the stakes are much higher.
Damon Tweedy
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.
Jeff Tweedy
#22. 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.
Jeff Tweedy
#23. 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.
Jeff Tweedy
#24. 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.
Jeff Tweedy
#25. 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
#27. I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.
Jeff Tweedy
#28. 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
#29. I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.
Jeff Tweedy
#30. What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.
Jeff Tweedy
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