Jeff Buckley famous quotes

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

#People #Giving #World

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

#Pain #Real #Joy

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

#Writing #Laughing #Music Love

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

#Unique #Sound #Want

Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Powerful #Ignorance #Reality

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

#Silence #Enemy #Progress

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

#Mother #Father #Blood

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

#Alone Time #Heal #Me Alone

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

#Heart #Mean #Sleep

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

#Different #Kind #Endless

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

#Guitar #Guy #Want

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Fate #Glasses #Champagne

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.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Past #Air #Giving

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

#Age #Coal #Pouring

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

#Writing #People #Cry

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

#Dream #Joy #Zeppelins

Sometimes if somebody you feel you need... the whole universe tells you that you have to have her, you start watching her favorite TV shows all night, you start buying her the things she needs, you start drinking her drinks, you start smoking her bad cigarettes, you start picking up her nuances in her voice, you sleep in safe sometimes the most dangerous thing... this is called Mojo Pin.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Drinking #Sleep #Night

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

#Beautiful #Want #This Life

Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Turns

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

#Rocks #Want

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

#Lying #Hair #Black

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

#Beautiful #Dark #Voice

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

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

#Forever #Soul #Tears

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

#Hatred #What Is Life

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

#Pain #Gun #What Matters

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

#Dog #Fleas #Sensitivity

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

#Mean #Eye #Night

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

#Kissing #Kingdoms #Lovers

In love we are all brothers and sisters
-- Jeff Buckley

#Brother #Brothers And Sisters

Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality
-- Jeff Buckley

#Ignorance #Reality #Errors

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

#Beautiful #Missing #Relief

Fight despite the crowds of the walking dead
-- Jeff Buckley

#Fighting #Walking Dead #Crowds

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

#Good Love #Mind #Tonight

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

#Passionate #Want #Adventurous

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

#Light #Goal #Littles

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

#Tunes

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Art #Albums #Warning

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

#Father #Fame #Anonymity

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

#Who I Am

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

#Children #Real #Only Child

[What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate are simply self-evident, emotional things. And the gifts of those things are that they bring both intellectual and emotional gifts - understanding. But I don't really have a major message that I want to bring to the world through my music. The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Emotional #Self #People

There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away
-- Jeff Buckley

#Moon #Clouds #Expression

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Needs #Remembered

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.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Song #Real #Lying

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

#Fashion #Song #People

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

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

#Mother #People #Stepfathers

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Memories #Eye #Thinking

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

#Mother #Father #Play

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Kissing #Desire #Kiss Me

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

#Running #Break #Young

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

#Singing #Absent

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

#Beautiful #Hate #Advice

I don’t know, I don’t know that I’m missing anything. I just think too much sometimes. Sometimes I’m even happy because I’m so engaged in the thinking. But that’s the great thing about performing, and why it is also sexual, because in that moment – or in that evening – I’m completely in the present for once in my life. Nothing that came before or anything that may come after: only what matters is now. And that’s what human beings crave.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Thinking #What Matters #Missing

Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Making Love #Want #Sometimes

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

#Sweet #Waiting #Causes

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

#Goodbye #Kissing #Hug

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

#Laughter #Kissing #Blood

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

#Love Is #Broken #Victory

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

#Pain #Patterns #Born

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

#Hands #Soul #Shapes

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

#Past #Honor #Pieces

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

#Love You #Waiting #Special

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

#Want

The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.
-- Jeff Buckley

#People #Needs #Information