"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."
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Jeff Buckley quotes (page 2 of 4)
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"Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive."
"We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain."
"There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?"
"If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women."
"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."
"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."
"I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered."
"Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality"
"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."
"She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever."
"Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love."
"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."
"My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people."
"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"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Love heals all wounds and not just time alone."
"Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music."