Jeff Buckley Quotes

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Jeff Buckley

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 17, 1966

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.

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

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People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!

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Grace is a quality in people that I just enjoy. It's a very human quality.

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I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.

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I don't choose the songs; the songs choose me.

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If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When you can do that, you can write about people.

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I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

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A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.

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

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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.

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I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

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I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mothers and fathers. I see how old they are inside. Like when I look at the president, or anybody in a record company, or a store owner, I may see a little boy behind the counter with the face of an old man. And that's who I talk to.

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I've already created my own thing.

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I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

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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.

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The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.

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In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.

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I don't want to do any more covers. It's good to learn to make things your own, but the education's over. 'Grace' is putting a lot of things to rest.

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There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.

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