Music needs to have a real sacred setting for people to understand it. You've got to start things off with friends who are like-minded or even strangers that are like-minded. Sending your music to established artists or labels or magazine, I mean there is something to be said for tenacity, for trying to pursue recognition that way, but it just doesn't make sense for the best work. And if you do make an amazing work, it's sometimes not the best way to be heard. You have to get on a sacred space, like a stage, and do your testifying that way.
Jeff BuckleyOne thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.
Jeff BuckleyI was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my motherโฆ It was my fatherโฆ It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.
Jeff BuckleyBut music seems to me to be the most closely identified with my soul. I mean, I feel that itโs 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