If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women. Jeff Buckley More Quotes by Jeff Buckley More Quotes From Jeff Buckley Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality. Jeff Buckley powerful ignorance reality My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people. Jeff Buckley song people art We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain. Jeff Buckley patterns born pain Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really. Jeff Buckley giving people world Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding. Jeff Buckley what-matters pain gun I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life. Jeff Buckley adventurous passionate want Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom Jeff Buckley sensitivity fleas dog I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered. Jeff Buckley remembered needs Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness. Jeff Buckley shapes soul hands Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive. Jeff Buckley making-love want sometimes You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again. Jeff Buckley pieces honor past I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate. Jeff Buckley hate advice beautiful The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing…with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between—that's all I got. Jeff Buckley here-and-there light goal I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real. Jeff Buckley pain real joy I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves Jeff Buckley I don’t know, I don’t know that I’m missing anything. I just think too much sometimes. Sometimes I’m even happy because I’m so engaged in the thinking. But that’s the great thing about performing, and why it is also sexual, because in that moment – or in that evening – I’m completely in the present for once in my life. Nothing that came before or anything that may come after: only what matters is now. And that’s what human beings crave. Jeff Buckley what-matters missing thinking Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, Jeff Buckley music time song There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away Jeff Buckley moon expression clouds If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress. Jeff Buckley progress silence enemy Sometimes if somebody you feel you need... the whole universe tells you that you have to have her, you start watching her favorite TV shows all night, you start buying her the things she needs, you start drinking her drinks, you start smoking her bad cigarettes, you start picking up her nuances in her voice, you sleep in safe sometimes the most dangerous thing... this is called Mojo Pin. Jeff Buckley drinking sleep night
