Jeff Buckley: Voice

Jeff Buckley was American singer, guitarist and songwriter. Explore interesting quotes on voice.
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“Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.”

Jeff Buckley
Beauty , Parting

“I just love his spirit and his whole energy, and I also love when men use their voice so unselfconsciously, and just really…feminine, masculine, all over the place. And he just, um…he was and is my favorite.”

Jeff Buckley

w:Alanis Morissette - from MTV 120 Minutes, 1999.

Love , Making love , Men

“It was the kind of collaboration I dream about actually. His voice sounded, you know, like an angel. Like a gift from God.”

Jeff Buckley

Gary Lucas – Guitarist from NBC Edgewise Tribute on MSNBC from 1997.

God , Angels , Dreams

“His voice is an incredible instrument, angelic and powerful and mean at the same time. Tortured. He has been a huge inspiration and influence to me over the last two years. This tune is just unreal.”

Jeff Buckley

Jonny Lang – Blues artist, from Rolling Stone Magazine, issues #820, September 2, 1999

Angels , Time

“People my age all flocked to see Jeff, you know. Because we were so, just to hear that voice again. He would have been so pissed off with it by now. All these old toothless hags hanging around the stage door you know. He was just shit hot, I gotta say.”

Jeff Buckley

Chrissie Hynde from the BBC Documentary "Everybody Here Wants You"

People , Age

“On the subject of dedication to a craft in addition talent, I was and especially the singing, were so original, so powerful, and so accomplished, that the tragedy of his loss, after making only the one record (though a flood of demos and live recordings was released in his wake), seemed ever more poignant. It was clear to me that Jeff Buckley had been one of the few Great Ones, a one-in-a-billion talent, a true voice of his generation, and at thirty, he had hardly begun. Whatever is left behind in the passing of a rare talent, so much is always lost.”

Jeff Buckley

Neil Peart drummer from Rush from the book, Traveling Music: Play Back the Soundtrack to My Life and Times.

Singing , Loss , Making love