Jeff Buckley Quotes

"I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that`s censorship."

"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. I don`t belong in magazines, I belong on stage, in front of the audience, one-to-one. There`s something that happens there. The rest is just crap."

"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."

"I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks."

The Smiths hasn`t been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. What Johnny Marr and he (Steven Patrick Morrissey) did was fabulous, nobody can beat that. If I`d ever start a rock band, I`d want to approximate that level.

"Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love..."

(About how he wants to be remembered) ...as a good friend. You know, I don`t really need to be remembered. I hope the music`s remembered.

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.

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.

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

Maybe I`m too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you`re on my mind, so you never know.

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it`s over. It`s over.

She`s a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there`s no one for you, But here is one.