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Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom
Jeff Buckley
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Jeff Buckley
Age: 30 †
Born: 1966
Born: November 17
Died: 1997
Died: May 29
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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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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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.
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Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.
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Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.
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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 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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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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I just want to be a guy with a guitar.
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I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
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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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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 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.
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There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
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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've already created my own thing.
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Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run
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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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I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.
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A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.
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Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.
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