I don't believe every download is a lost sale.
"Jeffrey Scot" ""Jeff"" "Tweedy" is an American songwriter, musician, record producer best known as the leader of the band Wilco.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous musicians! More Jeff Tweedy on Wikipedia.Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
We never could understand what the problem was with people listening to your music. I thought that was the whole point.
I've never considered us a country band, ... Even after this record, people still call us a country band. Have they listened to this record?
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.
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.
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.
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
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