Jeff Tweedy Quotations

I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

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.

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.

I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar.

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.

When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.

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.

I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.

I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.

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.