Jeff Tweedy Quotes
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've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'
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It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
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I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time.
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Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's a joke because they're not even going to last our lifetime. I built a home for umpteen gazillion dollars on a gorgeous piece of property in Palm Beach, and 11 years later somebody else bought it and knocked it down.
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Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or stashed away doing a life sentence some place. Or running and hiding some place, if I was still alive. I'm certain I wouldn't be playing music. She's just been perfect for me. And she's a protector also; she protects me from myself, from temptations, and bad associations. She's constantly shielding me from walking the red hot coals of existing as a game.
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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.
