American - Musician | November 17, 1966 - May 29, 1997
I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.
Jeff Buckley
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When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13. Crappy rock bands, avant-garde things where we'd, like, 'wanna go against the norm, man.'
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The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.
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She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.
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The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.
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All music industry places are the same, really. They have the same dynamics and the same concerns and the same needs.
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Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.
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