Quotes by Jeff Buckley

“Mon amourà toi toujoursDans tes grands yeuxrien que nous deux”

“Words are beautiful but restricted. Theyre very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over, the dark, the place where theres nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.”

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.

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

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

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.

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

I dont really need to be remembered. I hope the musics remembered.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people Ive known. Im always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. Thats a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

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 most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. Its worth being bashed against. Its worth getting scarred by. Its worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Im sick of all these labels and these manufactured subdivisions of music that dont even exist. And even though Im pierced myself, Im sick of everyone equating body piercing with musical courage. If you ask me, it takes a lot more than that.

Grace is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until its time to go. But sometimes, somebody elses faith in you can do wonders.

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

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

Im convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

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.

“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.”