'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.

Jeff Buckley

Time Life Fear

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

Jeff Buckley

Love Life Great

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.

Jeff Buckley

Time Music Love

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

Jeff Buckley

War Time You

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.

Jeff Buckley

Music Life Art

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.

Jeff Buckley

War Your You

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. I enjoy a lot of mystery.

Jeff Buckley

War T Son

People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!

Jeff Buckley

Who Us Them

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.

Jeff Buckley

Art You World

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

Jeff Buckley

Music Hope Us

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

Jeff Buckley

Love Good Young

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.

Jeff Buckley

God Car Wit

I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mothers and fathers. I see how old they are inside. Like when I look at the president, or anybody in a record company, or a store owner, I may see a little boy behind the counter with the face of an old man. And that's who I talk to.

Jeff Buckley

Women Men Wit

You can tell everything from the eyes.

Jeff Buckley

You Yes Very

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Jeff Buckley

Life Car Age

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

Jeff Buckley

Sad You Us

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

Jeff Buckley

T Sir Out

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

Jeff Buckley

Tear Tea T

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.

Jeff Buckley

Men Age Will

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

Jeff Buckley

Wit Want Us

Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another guy moves in ,and he has his say - and it's often just the opposite. The result is either critical acclaim or critical murder, and neither has any bearing on my music or direction.

Jeff Buckley

Music Us Traffic

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.

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 other people's lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever.

Jeff Buckley

Maybe someday, I'll just make, like, a complete on-demand record that everybody wants to hear. But that would be impossible and, also, I just changed my mind. I don't think I'll ever do that.

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 was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.

Jeff Buckley

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

Jeff Buckley

I just think too much sometimes.

Jeff Buckley

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

Jeff Buckley

There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

Jeff Buckley

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.

Jeff Buckley

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

Jeff Buckley

Maybe I'm not a good enough artist that people just think of me. Maybe in the future, I'll bloom into something that will just make people look at me for what I am.

Jeff Buckley

I am very observant of people's character.

Jeff Buckley

I think that all people are many people. I think all people have many, many, many different souls inside, and they just shift from one to the other.

Jeff Buckley

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

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

Jeff Buckley

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

Jeff Buckley

There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.

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 looks like posing - it never really gets down to any message or any real expression.

Jeff Buckley

I don't really go on what people say so much; I go on their voice. I go on their energy at the time. I go on how close their arms are folded into their chest.

Jeff Buckley

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

Jeff Buckley

I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother.

Jeff Buckley

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

Jeff Buckley

Critics try to pin so many different inaccuracies on me and my music; they look at the complicated things and try to simplify them. They think they can nail your whole life down just by knowing the bare bones of your history in partaking in 10 minutes of conversation.

Jeff Buckley

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

Jeff Buckley

I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

Jeff Buckley

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

Jeff Buckley

'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.

Jeff Buckley

I don't see myself in an ivory tower.

Jeff Buckley

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

Jeff Buckley

My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing... I don't mind being dashed on the rocks... My most base act of defiance is to live a long time and still rock.

Jeff Buckley