Jeff Buckley

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

— Jeff Buckley

I made a statement all my own.

— Jeff Buckley

“Lots of times I feel like I don’t belong to this place.”

— Jeff Buckley

I want to be ripped apart by music...

— Jeff Buckley

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

— Jeff Buckley

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

— Jeff Buckley

I just think too much sometimes.

— Jeff Buckley

“I'll rise like an ember in your name.”

— Jeff Buckley

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

— Jeff Buckley

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.

— Jeff Buckley

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

— Jeff Buckley

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?

— Jeff Buckley

I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

— Jeff Buckley

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by…

— Jeff Buckley

And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend.

— Jeff Buckley

When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape... the bones bend.

— Jeff Buckley

The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing…with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the…

— Jeff Buckley

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one…

— Jeff Buckley

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.…

— Jeff Buckley

One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.

— Jeff Buckley

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth,…

— Jeff Buckley

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing.…

— Jeff Buckley

Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love…

— Jeff Buckley

You can't be, like, smashing guitars against Marshall stacks all the time. As a matter of fact, after a while, it just…

— Jeff Buckley

When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13,…

— Jeff Buckley

I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part…

— Jeff Buckley

Sometimes a man gets carried away when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind to see…

— Jeff Buckley

Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people's lives, initiating force against…

— Jeff Buckley

“Grace is what matters, in anything... That's a quality I admire quite greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too…

— Jeff Buckley

I'm sick of all these labels and these manufactured subdivisions of music that don't even exist. And even though I'm pierced myself,…

— Jeff Buckley

Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality…

— Jeff Buckley

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very…

— Jeff Buckley

Music needs to have a real sacred setting for people to understand it. You've got to start things off with friends who…

— Jeff Buckley

[What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate…

— Jeff Buckley

I think I would really lay down and die. Music comes from a very primal, twisted place. When a person sings, their…

— Jeff Buckley

“I surrendered who I was to who you are..”

— Jeff Buckley

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

— Jeff Buckley

I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves

— Jeff Buckley

I am very observant of people's character.

— Jeff Buckley

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

— Jeff Buckley