Jeff Buckley Quotes

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

When I'm dead, gone or whatever, people will always remember my name and the music I did during my time.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

Some day I will be better remembered.

I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.

I don't actually think about going down in history.

Michael Jackson will live forever through the thing that he put all of his life energy into: his music. I will do my part to keep the melody alive, to keep the energy forever changing form, but never ever dying!! Long live Michael Jackson.

I know when somebody's heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.