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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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I like cinematic art that doesn't have to include violence as the main meat of emotion. Now, excellence in cinema is based on murder, guns. Tarantino bores me. Even though he is very appealing and very facile about putting elements of pop culture into his work. But it kinds of dates it, right?
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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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There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
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Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.
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Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run
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I just want to be a guy with a guitar.
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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 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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A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.
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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.
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I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.
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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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my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder lover you should have come over-
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I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves
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I want to be ripped apart by music.
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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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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.
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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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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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I've already created my own thing.
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