You can reach a trance-like state where what's really going on inside the human psyche is being sung to

It's just about being alive, my songs. And about even emitting sound. It's about the voice carrying much more information than the words do. The fact is, there are so many other areas you can go with other instruments going on at the same time. You can reach a trance-like state where what's really going on inside the human psyche is being sung to... the music aims at what's really going on underneath... not what people pretend to be or what they hope they can buy at a store. The little scared kid or the full-on romantic lover is being accessed. There are really majestic qualities about people that can be reached through music. People are incredible to me even though I'm healthily cynical sometimes. It's because we are spirits and the whole tension is that we don't know that we are. Yet, music is able to touch this.

Interview with Aldin Vaziri - 1994?

i got noone to run to but at least i got nobody i need to please

And i know i’d recognize your face 
Your memory keeps haunting me 
And i can’t forget what time won’t erase 

tim buckley

All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change.

There is no way to escape being separated from them.
"Don’t say Goodbye like you’re burying him, because the world is round and he might return"
Regina Spektor

"oh, did i mention when i see you it stings like hell?"
the academy is

"misery is not attractive. if you want to be loved you have to be worth loving, that’s the first rule. and second- be the flame, not the moth."
Casanova

"It is strange to think, I haven’t seen you since a month. I have seen the new moon, but not you. I have seen sunsets and sunrises, but nothing of your beautiful face. The pieces of my broken heart are so small that they could be passed through the eye of a needle."
A Knight’s Tale

"But I’d trade all of my tomorrows for just one yesterday / To be holding Bobby’s body next to mine."
Me & Bobby McGee

"I really don’t even know you and yet in my life you are forever entangled to my history inextricably bound”
Sarah Ockler

"And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man’s brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else’s gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another’s eyes.”
Meg Rosoff What I Was

i feel really strange

Singing intimate songs is 'kind of embarrassing.  I'm still not comfortable with what I do. Every time I get home after a show, I feel really strange -- like when you wake up in the morning and you realize that you went out the night before, got high, and told some stranger all the most intimate details of your life. It's kind of embarrassing.

Buzz Magazine, 1994

jeff buckley music collection

it's my personal mission to get every jeff buckley recording possible. thanks to zamzar and audio hijack i've collected alot already.

http://www.mojopin.org/ is an excellent jeff site. i love it. their ''mojo radio'' had lots of songs i couldn't find anywhere else.

there was this other site that had a media player with lots of his music but now i can't find it.

right now i have about 10 versions of most eternal life, mojo pin, lover you should have come over, etc. but honestly, each version is distinctly different from all the others. it's amazing. i can't even imagine what it would be like to witness his performance live. unbelievable.

for some reason i always give myself ultimatums, maybe to figure how much i like something. but if i could only listen to one musicians work for the rest of my life it would be jeff buckley.

He could be right, he could be wrong. I think he’s wrong but he says it in such a sincere way. You have to think he thinks he’s right.- bob dylan

They’re far from finished. The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it …. you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one’s ever done it better.

 I'm not exactly obsessed with writing songs.

Whatever passes for pop music, I couldn't do it then and I can't do it now.

 Do you think of yourself as a cult figure?

A cult figure, that's got religious connotations. It sounds cliquish and clannish. People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through. The side show performers - bluegrass singers, the black cowboy with chaps and a lariat doing rope tricks. Miss Europe, Quasimodo, the Bearded Lady, the half-man half-woman, the deformed and the bent, Atlas the Dwarf, the fire-eaters, the teachers and preachers, the blues singers. I remember it like it was yesterday. I got close to some of these people. I learned about dignity from them. Freedom too. Civil rights, human rights. How to stay within yourself. Most others were into the rides like the tilt-a-whirl and the rollercoaster. To me that was the nightmare. All the giddiness. The artificiality of it. The sledge hammer of life. It didn't make sense or seem real. The stuff off the main road was where force of reality was. At least it struck me that way. When I left home those feelings didn't change.

 As far as songwriting, I wanted to write songs like Woody Guthrie and Robert Johnson. Timeless and eternal.

 We shouldn’t confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, “My character this, and my character that.” Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don’t have to explain it to me.

Funny thing about actors and that identity thing. Every time I run into Val Kilmer, I can’t help myself. I say, “Why, Johnny Ringo - you look like somebody just walked on your grave.” Val always says, “Bob, I’m not Johnny Ringo. That’s just a role I played in a movie." 

He could be right, he could be wrong. I think he’s wrong but he says it in such a sincere way. You have to think he thinks he’s right.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/bob-dylan-exclusive-inter_n_187216.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/bob-dylan/5148025/Bob-Dylan-interview-with-Bill-Flanagan.html