Jeff Tweedy Quotes

I can operate in half-a-song format.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

'Trouble Maker' was a project that worked whenever a song that fit the concept came in.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

I let my partners and my DJ listen to my songs and if they say, 'Oh yeah I felt that one' or 'I am feeling that' then I write it down and we just continue building the album from there.

Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do something. With other people, it's like, we pick one song, and we hope it's the one.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.