Jeff Buckley Quotes

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

When words leave off, music begins.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

Lyrics mean a lot to me, and I won't record a song unless I can feel it. That's something I learned from Carter Stanley. Even when he wasn't perfect technically, he got inside a song and sold it emotionally.

A song isn't a newspaper. It might feel direct, but it's not.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look like.

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life.

I see my music as a visual thing. When I'm on stage I am very expressive with my face and through my performance - kind of like an actress but not really, it just rises up from inside with the music.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.