Jeff Buckley Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women. — 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'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

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

Lots of times I feel like I don't belong to this place. — 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

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

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

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

[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

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

I surrendered who I was to who you are.. — Jeff Buckley

Fall in light, grow in light. — Jeff Buckley

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

I just want to be a guy with a guitar. — 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

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

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

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

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

I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life. — 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 made a statement all my own. — 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

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

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one. — Jeff Buckley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

In love we are all brothers and sisters — Jeff Buckley

There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away — 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

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

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace? — 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 is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah. — Jeff Buckley

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to the dance club, dance all night, have a little drink, kiss the kid when they come back in and go to sleep. God doesn't need a chauffeur
he needs to drive himself. — Jeff Buckley

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

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

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation. — 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

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

I want to be ripped apart by music ... — 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

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

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

Fight despite the crowds of the walking dead — Jeff Buckley

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered. — 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

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

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