I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums. Jeff Buckley Read Quote
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. Jeff Buckley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
On my record cover, you can barely see my face. I still think I look really geeky. Jeff Buckley Read Quote
More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn’t do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that’s where my roots are. Jeff Buckley Read Quote
The Smiths hasn’t been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. Jeff Buckley Read Quote
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. Jeff Buckley Read Quote
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. Jeff Buckley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
