Jeff Buckley
Musician
1966-11-17
Quotes by Jeff Buckley
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There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
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There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?
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Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.
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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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Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.
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There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
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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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There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?
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You can't be, like, smashing guitars against Marshall stacks all the time. As a matter of fact, after a while, it just looks like posing - it never really gets down to any message or any real expression.
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Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. I enjoy a lot of mystery.
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The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.
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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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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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The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.
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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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I dunno... I feel out of step. Musically. Just out of step, not even behind or ahead. Just sort of like... I dunno, sometimes I feel like I'm still... just not... in sync. I don't know how to explain it. I just am.
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She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.
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Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
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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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The thing about a music career is that it ain't over until the fat lady sings. Look at all the times people threw in the towel on Dylan - or Neil Young. Remember when Young was doing things in the '80s like 'Trans' and the rockabilly album and being completely lambasted by critics who now think he is wonderful again?
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