It's hard for people to see how they can change how dismal things look, but there are still … - Jeff Tweedy

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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

Jeff Tweedy

It's hard for people to see how they can change how dismal things look, but there are still wonderful things to sing about. Music is the only way we are capable of talking about the most important things.

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I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. . . . anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.

Comfortable, Editing, Song, Spur, Writing

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.

People, Musician, Energy, Hearing, Principal

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

Ideas, Way, Poetic, Love, Imagery

With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it together. That's kind of sad; if you love someone, set them free, right?

Band, If You Love Someone, People, Right, Things, Together

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

Mean, Avant Garde, Never Change, Area, Changed