Jeff Buckley quote: "I'm concerned with the future. I'm concerned with my life, my present, my friends, people I love, people who love me. I have no intention of taking on a legacy that wasn't bestowed on me."

I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to Am...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a ...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel ...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're a...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another gu...
JEFF BUCKLEY

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
JEFF BUCKLEY

I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of w...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to t...
JEFF BUCKLEY

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It...
JEFF BUCKLEY

My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing... I don...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that to...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. ...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played...
JEFF BUCKLEY

There are times when what you do will be mysterious to everyone... times when you have to change dir...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people ...
JEFF BUCKLEY

When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be...
JEFF BUCKLEY

The only goal is in the process. The process is in the thing with little flashes of light: those are...
JEFF BUCKLEY

All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they'...
JEFF BUCKLEY

On my record cover, you can barely see my face. I still think I look really geeky.
JEFF BUCKLEY

I don't really go on what people say so much; I go on their voice. I go on their energy at the t...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.
JEFF BUCKLEY

I feel afraid and I call your name I love your voice and your dance insaneI hear your words and I kn...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
JEFF BUCKLEY

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over,...
JEFF BUCKLEY

she's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.
JEFF BUCKLEY

Thinking soo hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.
JEFF BUCKLEY

I don't see myself in an ivory tower.
JEFF BUCKLEY

People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Go...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm.. this body will never keep me safe from harm.I still feel your...
JEFF BUCKLEY

We're very excited about our new facility because it will be what we always wanted. Hopefully, we'll...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining ...
JEFF BUCKLEY

You can't be, like, smashing guitars against Marshall stacks all the time. As a matter of fact, ...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time...
JEFF BUCKLEY

A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love s...
JEFF BUCKLEY

If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Lots of time I feel like I don't belong to this place.
JEFF BUCKLEY

I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm.. this body will never keep me safe from harm.
I still feel...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Sometimes a man gets carried away when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind ...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight your on my mind, so you never kn...
JEFF BUCKLEY

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say theres no one for you, But here is one
JEFF BUCKLEY

I feel afraid and I call your name
I love your voice and your dance insane
I hear your word...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I couldn't awake from the nightmare That sucked me in and pulled me underPulled me underOh... That w...
JEFF BUCKLEY

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.
JEFF BUCKLEY

The thing about a music career is that it ain't over until the fat lady sings. Look at all the t...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Dylan and Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith, all dark, all romantic. When I say “romantic,” I mean a...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Mon amourà toi toujoursDans tes grands yeuxrien que nous deux
JEFF BUCKLEY

A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.
JEFF BUCKLEY

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is o...
JEFF BUCKLEY

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
JEFF BUCKLEY

I am very observant of people's character.
JEFF BUCKLEY

I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mother...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I'm sick of all these labels and these manufactured subdivisions of music that don't even ex...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.
JEFF BUCKLEY

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is l...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.
JEFF BUCKLEY

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Lots of times I feel like I don’t belong to this place.
JEFF BUCKLEY

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love...
JEFF BUCKLEY

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transfo...
JEFF BUCKLEY

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever
JEFF BUCKLEY

I dunno... I feel out of step. Musically. Just out of step, not even behind or ahead. Just sort of l...
JEFF BUCKLEY

When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape... the bones bend.
JEFF BUCKLEY

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the v...
JEFF BUCKLEY

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepf...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me...
JEFF BUCKLEY

'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any f...
JEFF BUCKLEY

love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.
JEFF BUCKLEY

I believe that all men and women will be saved.
PAT BUCKLEY

I believe that dogma is often evil.
PAT BUCKLEY

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.
PAT BUCKLEY

I believe that sex is good and so is the body.
PAT BUCKLEY

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.
PAT BUCKLEY

There is no one true church.
PAT BUCKLEY

I believe in people, especially suffering people.
PAT BUCKLEY

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
PAT BUCKLEY

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
PAT BUCKLEY

No man is infallible.
PAT BUCKLEY

I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.
PAT BUCKLEY

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
PAT BUCKLEY

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.
PAT BUCKLEY

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
PAT BUCKLEY

I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
PAT BUCKLEY

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
PAT BUCKLEY

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet...
PAT BUCKLEY

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
PAT BUCKLEY

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ...
PAT BUCKLEY

I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sen...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to cha...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
MARY BUCKLEY

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press...
LORD BUCKLEY

The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and mus...
BETTY BUCKLEY

Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, aco...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.
ROBERT BUCKLEY

I believe in the power of weakness.
PAT BUCKLEY

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
PAT BUCKLEY

Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something t...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
PAT BUCKLEY

Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their earl...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

We were going 1,000 miles an hour, and I don't want to start over again. It's part of my job to thin...
BILL BUCKLEY

Maybe a little spit here and a little spit there.
BILL BUCKLEY

What I realized almost immediately is I'm all over the place. I don't want to knock something down t...
BILL BUCKLEY

I can't say enough about him. He's a good friend and an outstanding manager at his store.
BILL BUCKLEY

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way o...
BETTY BUCKLEY

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights...
BETTY BUCKLEY

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn...
BETTY BUCKLEY

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
BETTY BUCKLEY

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.
BETTY BUCKLEY

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was una...
BETTY BUCKLEY

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was th...
BETTY BUCKLEY

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a b...
BETTY BUCKLEY

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and shari...
BETTY BUCKLEY

You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Cancer in the Family: Communicating With Your Children
BARBARA BUCKLEY

Nevada has passed more and more laws to become the Delaware of the West, ... This type of situation ...
BARBARA BUCKLEY

I would be honored to be speaker if I am fortunate enough to be re-elected and we are fortunate enou...
BARBARA BUCKLEY

What assurance do we have that the gas companies would not raise their prices?
BARBARA BUCKLEY

I never disliked humanity more than when I watched how indifferently they reacted to creation
KEITH BUCKLEY

Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an as...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughin...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

It was just one of those days. St. John's Prep, if I'm not mistaken, had seven firsts, so they were ...
BRIAN BUCKLEY

You can see the progress Justin has had over the years. For him to get MVP in the Catholic Conferenc...
BRIAN BUCKLEY

I think last year we only had one first place and for Justin to be MVP of the league and the confere...
BRIAN BUCKLEY

If he would have had fingernails he would have won it.
BRIAN BUCKLEY

The team is really coming together. We are getting ready for the Catholic Conference championship an...
BRIAN BUCKLEY

The devil's in the details, though.
BRIAN BUCKLEY

It was a way to throw a stumbling block in front of them. But it's really a technicality. I can't in...
BOB BUCKLEY

No water, you can't use the toilet. And that's a big concern in the house.
BOB BUCKLEY

The new owner was looking for a stable asset in a mature market and this is one of the nicest office...
BOB BUCKLEY

Six or eight years ago most people in the world couldn't access housing finance. That's no longer th...
BOB BUCKLEY

I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to l...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occas...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disne...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

We are pleased that the USDA enforced their regulations. We are also pleased that the elephants were...
CAROL BUCKLEY

Lack of space is the reason for most of the ailments that captive elephants are suffering from.
CAROL BUCKLEY

We had to build a new barn and new fencing and be ready to house and feed guests who eat an awful lo...
CAROL BUCKLEY

It's how you deal with it mentally.
CAROL BUCKLEY

The whole process should have been filled with excitement and anticipation, ... but the whole proces...
CAROL BUCKLEY

The best-case scenario is that the organizations can work cooperatively, that elephants can be moved...
CAROL BUCKLEY

It is disappointing that elephants live in zoos and circuses, chained for days and months on end, fo...
CAROL BUCKLEY

The Elephant Sanctuary exists for two reasons. To provide a haven for old, sick or needy elephants i...
CAROL BUCKLEY

Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leader...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press...
LORD BUCKLEY

I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender
MARY BUCKLEY

In addition to the 100 books, they also donated a pack of books to every one of the [25] children in...
MARY BUCKLEY

So many of these information systems really fit with each other.
MARY BUCKLEY

As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large 'howev...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they acce...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

That's the coolest thing I've ever seen," Puck said.
"How cool will it be when it kills us?" Sa...
MICHAEL BUCKLEY

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is re...
BETTY BUCKLEY

The January numbers looked overly weak, in light of recent developments in the housing market so som...
GEORGE BUCKLEY

2005 was an excellent year for ICG. The list of accomplishments is long and includes proof points of...
WALTER BUCKLEY

At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

This was huge. We knew we had to win both these games. After we started 0-4, we just came out and pr...
JOE BUCKLEY

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, the...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'D...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

The whole file should be open. Let's look at the good that can come from that. If we understand how ...
BARBARA BUCKLEY

Who are we trying to protect?
BARBARA BUCKLEY

We're hopeful that will curb the abuses, ... Unfortunately, some of these operators, they're just ro...
BARBARA BUCKLEY

No, I am not concerned about that. The latest proposal from the Canadian (health) minister is to ban...
BARBARA BUCKLEY

We work for people getting the raw end of the deal. I love the job today as much as the day I began.
BARBARA BUCKLEY

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

He doesn't like being told what to do. He's reacting against the neo-Puritanism that you mustn't smo...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Indeed the SALT project has become an iconic symbol for what can be achieved in Science and Technolo...
DAVID BUCKLEY

The little plans are not really the problem. It's the jets that cause the trouble.
CHARLES BUCKLEY

SALT gives us the ability to look far back in time.
DAVID BUCKLEY

There comes a moment in every life when the Universe presents you with an opportunity to rise to you...
JAIME BUCKLEY

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender...
MARY BUCKLEY

S he has a next door neighbor that is also elderly, and this person was alone and she was not able t...
CHARLES BUCKLEY

pulling down the stature of George W. Bush...the more the merrier for me.
RAY BUCKLEY

Each year is a new year.
TIM BUCKLEY

We chose a platform that gave us the best integration for custom applications.
BRUCE BUCKLEY

It's one of the biggest non-wartime operations ever.
BRUCE BUCKLEY

Monitoring is something I have been pursing for years. The noise from the planes causes you stop in ...
CHARLES BUCKLEY

All the music from the ballet I found to be expressive and easy on the ears. I like variety . . . I ...
JAMES BUCKLEY

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical com...
BETTY BUCKLEY

Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

What I realized almost immediately is I'm all over the place. I don't want to knock something dow...
BILL BUCKLEY

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Our emphasis has not been on measuring the tasks we've automated to date.
MARY BUCKLEY

That's exactly Toledo's [opponent] average in their wins. We talked about having to keep it to 12 or...
TIM BUCKLEY

The lads should know what it is all about and I am hoping they won't be as nervous as last week.
PAUL BUCKLEY

I'm concerned with the future. I'm concerned with my life, my present, my friends, people I love, people who love me. I have no intention of taking on a legacy that wasn't bestowed on me.

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Jeff Buckley

I'm concerned with the future. I'm concerned with my life, my present, my friends, people I love, people who love me. I have no intention of taking on a legacy that wasn't bestowed on me.

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