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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
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Jeff Buckley
Age: 30 †
Born: 1966
Born: November 17
Died: 1997
Died: May 29
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Jeffrey Scott Buckley
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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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We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.
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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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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 resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
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A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.
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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 sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
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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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I've already created my own thing.
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Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.
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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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