Jeff Buckley quotes

Jeff Buckley was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, widely admired for his powerful voice and emotional performances. His only studio album, "Grace," has become a cult classic and inspired countless musicians. He is remembered for his haunting rendition of "Hallelujah" and his enduring influence on modern music. Here are 66 of his quotes:

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. (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. View quote
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Why do they always show Christ up there bleeding and dying on the cross? We don't remember John Lennon lying there with a bullet hole in his head. I'm against the arbitrary organization of 'God' as a concept. We should all experience it all individually and purely. I don't agree with the separation of God and the body, I don't believe that we aren't a part of 'it', I don't agree that it's a man. In most religions there's no place for women. There aren't any women in the Holy Trinity and I need that. I love women, I came from a woman. View quote
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I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves. View quote
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She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever. View quote
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Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run. View quote
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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. View quote
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And what do I want people to get from the music? Whatever they want. Whatever you like. 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. View quote
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Interviewer: "So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?" Jeff (after a long pause): "Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally." View quote
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my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder" lover you should have come over. View quote
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Everything I ever projected New York to be, it was-even the stinky, ratty, vomity part of it. Everybody has to do the subway. Everybody has to smell the same smells. And people get mad all the time. When people don't like something, like ‘Get out of my way you blah, blah, blah.' But [in L.A.] it's like, ‘How ya doing? Let's do lunch! I love you!' (Jeff Buckley)
There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace? View quote
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You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard. View quote
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I just love his spirit, and his whole energy, and I also love when men use their voice so unselfconsciously, and just really...feminine, masculine, all over the place. And he just, um...he was, and is, my favourite. View quote
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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. View quote
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We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain. View quote
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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. View quote
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It was the kind of collaboration I dream about actually. His voice sounded, you know, like an angel. Like a gift from God. View quote
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This beautiful-looking guy with a fur coat and mad, curly hair walked in. He went to the bar and got a pint of Guinness, then plugged in his Fender and began to sing. Everybody was completely blown away. Who was it? It was Jeff Buckley. View quote
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His voice is an incredible instrument, angelic and powerful and mean at the same time. Tortured. He has been a huge inspiration and influence to me over the last two years. This tune is just unreal. View quote
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Jeff Buckley was a pure drop in an ocean of noise. (Jeff Buckley)
People my age all flocked to see Jeff, you know. Because we were so, just to hear that voice again. He would have been so pissed off with it by now. All these old toothless hags hanging around the stage door you know. He was just shit hot, I gotta say. View quote
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He quite clearly had his feet on the ground and his head and his imagination was flying way, way out there, beyond, beyond. View quote
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I wanted to fuse together my favorite elements of rock and soul singers into something I could call my own. The inflections of Stevie Wonder with the soaring qualities of someone like Buckley. It was his emotional intensity that inspired me more than anything. Also, Jeff came along at a time most singers weren't using their upper register. His approach helped me embrace the fact that I was a tenor. I owe that guy a lot. View quote
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That's what I wanted to do. You know, 2 hours. It's like long-distance running or playing in a football game when you totally run out of steam and the moves you make after you run out of steam, because you're totally unselfconscious, you're not even thinking about the mechanics anymore. The moves you make then are incredible. View quote
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Occupation: American Musician
Born: November 17, 1966
Died: May 29, 1997
Quotes count: 66
Wikipedia: Jeff Buckley

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