Jeff Buckley

Jeff Buckley

"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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"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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"I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad."
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"I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad."
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"Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes."
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"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 it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders."
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"I'm sick of all these labels and these manufactured subdivisions of music that don't even exist. And even though I'm pierced myself, I'm sick of everyone equating body piercing with musical courage. If you ask me, it takes a lot more than that."
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"The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals."
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"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."
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"Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's 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."
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"The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in."
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"I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered."
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"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."
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"There is no good singing, there is only present and absent."
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"There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?"
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"Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more."
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"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."
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