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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.
Jeff Buckley
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Jeff Buckley
Age: 30 †
Born: 1966
Born: November 17
Died: 1997
Died: May 29
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Anaheim
California
Jeffrey Scott Buckley
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Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
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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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love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.
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And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend.
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