Jeff Buckley 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.

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

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.

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

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

I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

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.

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

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.

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.

Fight despite the crowds of the walking dead

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I've already created my own thing.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

In love we are all brothers and sisters

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

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

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

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

I want to be ripped apart by music.

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