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 BuckleyIf you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.
Jeff BuckleyBe the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality
Jeff BuckleyThere's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?
Jeff BuckleySo 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 BuckleyWe are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.
Jeff BuckleyI 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 BuckleyI resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
Jeff BuckleyI 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 BuckleyMusic should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.
Jeff BuckleyI like cinematic art that doesn't have to include violence as the main meat of emotion. Now, excellence in cinema is based on murder, guns. Tarantino bores me. Even though he is very appealing and very facile about putting elements of pop culture into his work. But it kinds of dates it, right?
Jeff BuckleyI 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 BuckleyI 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.
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