Jeff Buckley Quotes

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.

I'm kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

It doesn't make it any easier that people form opinions and make judgment calls and think I'm something that I'm not or do things that I don't.

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

What I really don't like is oversimplification.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion.

Accusations fit on a bumper sticker. The truth is longer.

There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.

People did pigeonhole me.

Football just isn't that complicated.

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

No, Blitz. That's oversimplifying it.

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

General notions are generally wrong.

Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.

If we start to dumb down what has been made clear, where does that stop?