Jeff Buckley > Quotes

“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

“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

“I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves”
― Jeff Buckley

“Dylan and Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith, all dark, all romantic. When I say “romantic,” I mean a sensibility that sees everything, and has to express everything, and still doesn’t know what the fuck it is, it hurts that bad. It just madly tries to speak whatever it feels, and that can mean vast things. That sort of mentality can turn a sun-kissed orange into a flaming meteorite, and make it sound like that in a song.”
― Jeff Buckley

“There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?”
― 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

“My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over,
all my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her...
It's never over,
All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter...
It's never over,
She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever...”
― Jeff Buckley

“She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever”
― Jeff Buckley

“Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run”
― Jeff Buckley

“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

“Grace is what matters, in anything... That's a quality I admire quite greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly, keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It keeps you alive and it keeps you open for more understanding.”
― Jeff Buckley

“my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder"
lover you should have come over-”
― Jeff Buckley

“There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.”
― 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

“Lots of times I feel like I don’t belong to this place.”
― Jeff Buckley

“I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.”
― Jeff Buckley

“Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love...”
― 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

“Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.”
― 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

“Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.”
― Jeff Buckley

“I surrendered who I was to who you are..”
― 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, Jeff Buckley Collection

“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

“Apparently orgasm is the only point where your mind becomes completely empty—you think of nothing for that second. That's why it's so compelling—it's a tiny taste of death. Your mind is void—you have nothing in your head save white light.”
― Jeff Buckley, Jeff Buckley: Grace And Other Songs Guitar Tab

“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

“I love anything that haunts me and never leaves”
― Jeff Buckley

“The beauty of God is in the wind, in the movement of the ocean, it is in the eyes of a woman gazing at her lover, pouring the deep red wine of love from her eyes like two crystal cups. There is a God who dances and who loves and who longs to sing of love...And I mean that God is music; all inclusive, benevolent and life-affirming, unashamed human emotion.”
― Jeff Buckley, Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice

“Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality”
― 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