Jeff Buckley Quotes
The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.
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If I'm dehydrated, my muscles feel almost squeaky.
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We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now.
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One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.
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The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.
