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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.

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Jeff Buckley
Age: 30 †
Born: 1966
Born: November 17
Died: 1997
Died: May 29
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Anaheim
California
Jeffrey Scott Buckley
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My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people.
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If you do anything regularly for a while, sooner or later the weirdoes will show up.
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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.
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Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.
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love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.
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There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
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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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She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.
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Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run
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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.
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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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Music is my mother and my father it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.
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The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.
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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.
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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.
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I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
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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 just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.
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Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.
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my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder lover you should have come over-
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