Jeff Buckley

“I dunno... I feel out of step. Musically. Just out of step, not even behind or ahead. Just sort of like... I dunno, sometimes I feel like I'm still... just not... in sync. I don't know how to explain it. I just am.”

“All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.”

“You can tell everything from the eyes.”

“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, I'm sick of everyone equating body piercing with musical courage. If you ask me, it takes a lot more than that.”

“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.”

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

“I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.”

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

“I once tried to sing jazz for real. But jazz didn't do it for me. You can't have jazz without a jazz world, which doesn't exist anymore.”

“Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people's lives, initiating force against other people's lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever.”

“When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.”

“A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.”

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

“They will accuse me of stealing from my father. They already stand in baited judgement, waiting for my first move, waiting to dump their loads of garbage on me.”

“I do like structure, and I'd love to be better at it.”

“I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to America when she was five with my grandmother and grandfather, and that was the family I knew. Everybody sang; everybody had songs all the time, and they loved music.”

“I've always liked the electric guitar better. Even though the acoustic can be a very sexy and mysterious instrument, I can go to way more places with an electric.”

“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 am very observant of people's character.”

“I don't want to do any more covers. It's good to learn to make things your own, but the education's over. 'Grace' is putting a lot of things to rest.”