Jeff Tweedy Quotes

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

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• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Drums
  • Bass

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Life
  • Know
  • Parent

• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Respect
  • Artist
  • Just

• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Right

• I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Style
  • Feel
  • Inspiration

• Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Dreams

• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Money
  • Dad

• I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Always

• The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Risk
  • Ability
  • Happen

• When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Character
  • Destiny

• The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Deep

• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Fun
  • Violence
  • Things

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Peace
  • Forget
  • Never Forget

• I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Parents
  • Strong

• Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Good
  • Light
  • Fighting

• I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Singing

• People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Reality

• 'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Art
  • Design

• A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model 'The Mesh.'

  

  Lisa Gansky
  • Power
  • Choices
  • Model

• I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Long
  • Art
  • Funny

• 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
  • Art
  • Power