American - Musician | August 25, 1967 -
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
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I was never at my best when I was at my worst. 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.
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I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
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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.
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You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.
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Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
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I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
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Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.
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I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
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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.
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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.
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I don't believe every download is a lost sale.
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