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Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness. -- Jeff Buckley
You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again. -- Jeff Buckley
Kiss me, please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye. -- Jeff Buckley
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. -- Jeff Buckley
Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is. -- Jeff Buckley
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship. -- Jeff Buckley
I 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 Buckley
The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. -- Jeff Buckley
Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know. -- Jeff Buckley
And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend. -- Jeff Buckley
But music seems to me to be the most closely identified with my soul. I mean, I feel that it's 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
Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest ... my blood ... my compass ... my love ... -- Jeff Buckley
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied. -- 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. -- Jeff Buckley
Lots of times I feel like I don't belong to this place. -- Jeff Buckley
To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run. -- Jeff Buckley
Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more. -- Jeff Buckley
In love we are all brothers and sisters -- Jeff Buckley
Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. -- Jeff Buckley
A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it. -- Jeff Buckley
To do something that will just fly away is kind of special. Every time somebody tell you they love you, that "I love you" flies away, and you wait until the next one. -- Jeff Buckley
Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry,
to love music. -- Jeff Buckley
Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning. -- Jeff Buckley
Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is. -- Jeff Buckley
If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress. -- Jeff Buckley
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. -- Jeff Buckley
I 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. -- Jeff Buckley
Love heals all wounds and not just time alone. -- Jeff Buckley
Love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah. -- Jeff Buckley
I'll rise like an ember in your name. -- Jeff Buckley
I made a statement all my own. -- Jeff Buckley
So 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 Buckley
All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one. -- Jeff Buckley
I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life. -- Jeff Buckley
I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate. -- Jeff Buckley
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. -- Jeff Buckley
Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive. -- Jeff Buckley
I want to be ripped apart by music ... -- Jeff Buckley
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 Buckley
Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run -- Jeff Buckley
My kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder
lover you should have come over- -- Jeff Buckley
I surrendered who I was to who you are.. -- Jeff Buckley
The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing ... with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between - that's all I got. -- Jeff Buckley
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over. -- Jeff Buckley
I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame. -- Jeff Buckley
Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality -- Jeff Buckley
I just want to be a guy with a guitar. -- Jeff Buckley
The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather. -- Jeff Buckley
Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne. -- Jeff Buckley
Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love countless times with all kinds of different music.There's still something about it,I guess it's called Freedom. -- Jeff Buckley
There is no good singing, there is only present and absent. -- Jeff Buckley
I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down
the road crying to a full-blast stereo. -- Jeff Buckley
There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace? -- Jeff Buckley
I love anything that haunts me ... and never leaves -- Jeff Buckley
I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad. -- Jeff Buckley
We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain. -- Jeff Buckley
Fall in light, grow in light. -- Jeff Buckley
Fight despite the crowds of the walking dead -- Jeff Buckley
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. -- Jeff Buckley
She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever -- Jeff Buckley
Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams ... And Zeppelin. Totally. -- Jeff Buckley
If you do anything regularly for a while, sooner or later the weirdoes will show up. -- Jeff Buckley
Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to ... just to give back to it what it's given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it ... just to be in the world, really. -- Jeff Buckley
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. -- Jeff Buckley
If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women. -- Jeff Buckley
There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away -- Jeff Buckley
I've already created my own thing. -- Jeff Buckley
Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation. -- Jeff Buckley
I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered. -- Jeff Buckley