Top 80 Quotes About Jeff Buckley
#1. The suits made hits and created stars because they knew something. The suits had been around the block and back, having experienced, firsthand, everyone from Jimmy Dorsey to Jimi Hendrix to Jeff Buckley to J. Lo. I trusted them because they earned that trust, at least on a purely musical level.
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#2. I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
Imogen Poots
#3. I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
Nat Wolff
#4. People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with.
Kimbra
#5. I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.
Christopher Masterson
#6. It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to making music over here because so much of American music has inspired me, whether it's Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.
Tom Odell
#7. My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
Rachel Bilson
#8. I wish I could have performed with Jeff Buckley, but I missed my chance.
Sydney Wayser
#9. You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.
Sebastian Bach
#10. I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
Florence Welch
#11. I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.
Gregory Maguire
#12. Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
Jeff Buckley
#13. I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down
the road crying to a full-blast stereo.
Jeff Buckley
#14. Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.
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#15. I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.
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#16. The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing ... with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between - that's all I got.
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#17. If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women.
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#18. I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother ... It was my father ... It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.
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#19. Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.
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#20. I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.
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#21. Lots of times I feel like I don't belong to this place.
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#22. The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.
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#23. Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry,
to love music.
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#24. A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.
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#25. The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
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#26. To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.
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#27. There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?
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#28. All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.
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#32. Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
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#33. There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
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#34. I love anything that haunts me ... and never leaves
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#35. Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run
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#36. Fight despite the crowds of the walking dead
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#37. Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams ... And Zeppelin. Totally.
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#38. There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away
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#39. Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love countless times with all kinds of different music.There's still something about it,I guess it's called Freedom.
Jeff Buckley
#40. But music seems to me to be the most closely identified with my soul. I mean, I feel that it's the best for me. It just gets into the bloodstream so quickly, for no reason at all. You can close your heart, and you can sleep even with your eyes closed, but you can never close your ears.
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#41. My kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder
lover you should have come over-
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#42. I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.
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#43. I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.
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#44. We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.
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#45. The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.
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#46. Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.
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#47. I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
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#48. Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.
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#49. If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.
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#50. I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real.
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#51. So I'll wait for you ... And I'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return? Oh, will I ever learn? Oh, Lover, you should've come over Cause it's not too late.
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#53. Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.
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#54. I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
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#55. Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest ... my blood ... my compass ... my love ...
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#57. I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.
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#58. Kiss me, please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.
Jeff Buckley
#59. And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend.
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#60. Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.
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#61. When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.
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#63. Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.
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#64. If you do anything regularly for a while, sooner or later the weirdoes will show up.
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#65. I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.
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#66. I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
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#68. I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.
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#69. To do something that will just fly away is kind of special. Every time somebody tell you they love you, that "I love you" flies away, and you wait until the next one.
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#70. Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.
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#71. Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to ... just to give back to it what it's given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it ... just to be in the world, really.
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#73. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality
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#74. She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever
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#75. Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.
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#76. I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to the dance club, dance all night, have a little drink, kiss the kid when they come back in and go to sleep. God doesn't need a chauffeur
he needs to drive himself.
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#77. Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.
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#78. Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.
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#79. Love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.
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#80. You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again.
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