Quotes by Jeff Buckley

“There's 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 l...”

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

“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.”

“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 quick...”

“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. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over ev...”

“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...”

“'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 ...”

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

“I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.”

“I'm 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.”

“I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.”

“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.”

“New York Newsday said I was stealing from the black man, and I was failing at it whereas Michael Bolton was succeeding. So fuck 'em.”

“Everything I ever projected New York to be, it was—even the stinky, ratty, vomity part of it. Everybody has to do the subway. Everybody has to smell the same smells. And people get mad all the time...”

“RR: Whenever I've seen you play here in New York at Sin-é or Fez, people sit there mesmerized.JB: People weren't into it at first. I had to fight to be heard. Then I had to stop fighting. Whole mon...”

“AV: You grew up in Riverside, California, what was that like?JB: From womb to tomb, it's thug country. I'm amazed that I had any friends at all. People grow up repressed from the spirit, day by day...”