Jeff Buckley Quotes

Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.

I sing about life.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

Doing something that is your passion, in my case related to music and art, being a performer playing shows around the world, that is a dream come true.

For me, this band and the music that I write and this touring thing that I do and playing in front of people, singing, and making a lot of noise on guitar - all that was more important than a lot of other things.

Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.

Recording should be fun.

I think my biggest achievement is still going out on the road and wanting to make music on the road. It doesn't matter to me that I am still travelling around because I just love everything about it, I love the lifestyle, and I love being on stage.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.

We love performing, we love touring.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.