Jeff Buckley Quotes

I think I would really lay down and die. Music comes from a very primal, twisted place. When a person sings, their body, their mouth, their eyes, their words, their voice says all these unspeakable things that you really can't explain but that mean something anyway. People are completely transformed when they sing; people look like that when they sing or when they make love. But it's a weird thing - at the end of the night I feel strange, because I feel I've told everybody all my secrets. ~ Jeff Buckley

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever ~ Jeff Buckley

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest ... my blood ... my compass ... my love ... ~ Jeff Buckley

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry,
to love music. ~ Jeff Buckley

I've already created my own thing. ~ Jeff Buckley

Love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

Love heals all wounds and not just time alone. ~ Jeff Buckley

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

If you do anything regularly for a while, sooner or later the weirdoes will show up. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

I want to be ripped apart by music ... ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad. ~ Jeff Buckley

In love we are all brothers and sisters ~ Jeff Buckley

My kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder
lover you should have come over- ~ Jeff Buckley

Fight despite the crowds of the walking dead ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life. ~ Jeff Buckley

You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard. ~ Sebastian Bach

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace? ~ Jeff Buckley

I just want to be a guy with a guitar. ~ Jeff Buckley

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams ... And Zeppelin. Totally. ~ Jeff Buckley

I love anything that haunts me ... and never leaves ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress. ~ Jeff Buckley

And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend. ~ Jeff Buckley

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

A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

I wish I could have performed with Jeff Buckley, but I missed my chance. ~ Sydney Wayser

I'll rise like an ember in your name. ~ Jeff Buckley

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

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain. ~ Jeff Buckley

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. ~ Jeff Buckley

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

If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women. ~ Jeff Buckley

Fall in light, grow in light. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

Sometimes a man gets carried away when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind to see the damage he's done, oh sometimes a man must awake to find that really he has no one. 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. Oh love well I'm waiting for you. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run ~ Jeff Buckley

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

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

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan. ~ Christopher Masterson

When I was around 13 or 14, I started getting really into songwriting. And one day, I was rooting through my mum's old tapes and records, and I found 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley. I remember so vividly the first time I put it on. It blew my mind: his voice, the way he could play the guitar. I must have listened to the album over and over for weeks. ~ Tom Odell

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame. ~ Jeff Buckley

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. ~ Jeff Buckley

By the way, you don't need the makeup." Puck said. ~ Michael Buckley

One must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly." The president smiled. "Well, they've had enough time to play this game. I hope my belated reaction will not disappoint them." "No, sir. Alex must have half expected you to kick him out the door." "The thought's occurred to me more than once. His diplomatic charm has always been lost on me. That's the one thing about the Russians - they remind me so much of the mafia chieftains I used to prosecute. The same smattering of culture and good manners, and the same absence of morality." The president shook his head. He was talking like a hawk again. "Stay close, Jeff. I have George Farmer coming in here in a few minutes, but I want you around when our friend comes back." Pelt walked back to his office pondering the president's remark. It was, he admitted to himself, crudely accurate. The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be ~ Tom Clancy

Admit is a beautiful word - it means both "tell the truth" and "allow in." To admit present experience - to tell the truth about what is actually present - is to recognize that what's present has already been admitted into life. The waves appearing at present have already been admitted into the ocean, and admitting that they exist is at the absolute core of this teaching. Waking up is all about admitting who you really are! ~ Jeff Foster

Oh, good lord, Jeff. Don't go getting all emotional on me. I've been getting it from my mom, my dad, my sister, the freaking MAILMAN
I don't need it from you, too. All I ask is that you promise me one thing.'
'What?'
'Just water the plants while I'm gone, all right?'
'You don't have plants, Tad.'
'I know. I just always wanted to say that. ~ Jordan Sonnenblick

I gotta take notes when things occur to me. ~ Jeff Bridges

I have this notion that maybe this world is the hell of the angels. That maybe we're creatures with angels exiled in our souls, banished to this godawful existence, howling in despair...and all those beautiful dreams we have are only the ravings of those angels, their screams in our animal minds. ~ Jeff Fields

The really hard part isn't stepping off the boat; it's learning how to swim. ~ Jeff Goines

Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls. ~ James L. Buckley

I'm a longboard guy. ~ Jeff Bridges

You might be a redneck if you wish your outhouse was as nice as those at the state park. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

I was so lucky to be working with amazing actors like Shia and Evan and James Buckley and Mads Mikkelsen and Rupert Grint and Til Schweiger and those guys, so you really want to make sure that they, that I don't have to shut off the camera because I'm running out of film or it becomes too expensive. ~ Fredrik Bond

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.' ~ Jeff Lindsay

You might be a redneck if your Momma would rather go the racetrack than the Kennedy Center. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home. She can also speak like a medical doctor. By intermingling the language of the heart and the scientific language she is driving the history of childbirth towards a radical and inspiring new direction. ~ Michel Odent

[Donald] Trump is where the Republicans are, and if you're going to be a Republican leader you should be supportive of that. ~ Jeff Sessions

Orcs live in caves. Goblins live in shadows. It's the pain of distance versus the pain of proximity. ~ Jeff Mach

What just happened?" asked Jeff. "Sloane just yelled at the story until it went away," I said blankly. ~ Seanan McGuire

Let's drive our
Volvo into a brick wall to make

Rosie Perez feel better. ~ Donora A. Rihn

Writing in Library Journal, Ben Vershbow of the Institute for the Future of Book envisioned a digital ecology in which "parts of books will reference parts of other books. Books will be woven toghether out of components in remote databases and servers." Kevin Kelly wrote in The New York times Magagzine: "In the the new world of books, every bit informs another; every page reads all the other pages. ~ Jeff Jarvis

I'm not trying to teach anybody anything, I'm not trying to say anything, I have no political motive whatsoever. My motive is just the big laugh. ~ Jeff Dunham

I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do. ~ Jeff Noon

Peekaboo: Welcome to Miami ~ Jeff Lindsay

WHAT! WE CANT TALK AT THE SAME TIME! I talk, you talk, I talk, you talk, I talk, you talk, WE CAN'T DO IT! Peanut. WHAT! You said my name wrong. No it's Jeff Dun-ham. No it's dunham, No dun-ham. No dunha. No you see it says dunham jeff dun-HAM. Actually if you look at it, it say jef f dunham .com ~ Jeff Dunham

Like a bird handled by humans whose flock would not accept it back, Rob now wore the unwashable scent of the Ivy League. ~ Jeff Hobbs

Men with power either trumpet to everyone just how powerful they are, or they use that power effectively by keeping quiet about it, and going about their duties. ~ Jeff Shaara

First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say 'diary' on it. ~ Jeff Kinney

Struggle shapes our character. And character dictates what we will become. ~ Jeff Goins

No matter where you look for something that is not an experience, the moment you find it you will realize that you have only found another experience. Experience is the stuff that reality is made of. ~ Jeff Carreira

Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. "Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one. ~ Jeff Ferry

I feel it's better for me to be alone, and know why I'm alone, than to be with someone, and wonder why I'm alone."
Jeff Madison... character in the WWW series Book Four, What Went Wrong? ~ Kgcummings

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.) ~ Jeff Britting

For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough. ~ Jeff Jarrett

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

What Robert was trying to do so intently was, in fact, no more than craft. He did no more than copy my tics and twitches - even to the point of staring at my family portrait, a very personal part of my disguise, for his character research - ~ Jeff Lindsay

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. ~ Jeff Sessions

The Internet is the aggregate of human derpitude.

Listening to the Internet without being confident you've found a well-curated garden relative to the area of concern is a bad idea. ~ Jeff Alexander

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements. ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

You might be a redneck if you have every episode of Hee Haw on tape. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

I want my work to be accessible to people, ~ Jeff Koons

If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor. ~ Jeff Bezos