I'm quite similar to imagine_peace. In his music its his transcendental quality, reaching beyond and carrying on this long ecstasy of soaring loveliness. I love how his music has been informed by so many different areas, from Led Zeppelin to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to Nina Simone. I think all of those influences are present in his music all the time.
And as a man, agreeing with imagine_peace, he talked in a way that made everything poetry. some of the things he's said have kept with me all my life, and I use them for my own mantras. Its also the excitement and fun in his voice, and his passions for things and funny incidents. He may have been a sad guy, but I don't see him as tragic, and I love him for his sparks of happiness, which I see a lot of when he's being interviewed and when he's interacting with his audience and singing. There is loads of fun in Jeff, he wasn't a tragic figure in my eyes at all.
Thank you !! This is great. What you said reminded me of this excerpt I took from a journal I recently read, thought you would enjoy. Jeff's mom on Jeff:
"He was very expressive, very funny…He would dance and sing and imitate cartoon characters and use funny voices and pretty much entertain folks…He was a hilariously happy-go-lucky sort of individual. Dogs sought him out, kitty cats climbed up in his lap and babies gravitated towards him, and he would gravitate towards them. I mean if we were invited to a wedding and somebody said ‘Where’s Jeff’ I’d go, ‘Well, where are the kids?’ And he would be rolling around in the grass with them or playing games or teaching them nursery rhymes or songs or singing with them or something like that."
You know, reading Mary's quote on Jeff and kids made me really sad that he didn't have children of his own. Hearing how well he interacted with them and knowing what kind of a man he was, I think his kids would've learned some incredible values and beliefs from him...
exactly, I think you can see that in everything he does. the Live at Sin-e recordings, for example, are so full of his jokes and fun. I think his tragic quality is completely overplayed due to his death. personally. He had a lot of life in him yet.
I had never seen the crucifix quote before... wow!
But yeah, these are wonderful quotes. Here are some of my favorites:
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
"I want people to stay still for a while and let something they have no power over wash over them, gladly, and be a little better for it."
I think there was just something so pure about Jeff. He simply enjoyed writing, performing and living music. It was his compulsion, except not of his lower base self. Jeff unleashed his higher virtuous being, that takes most of years to acknowledge it exists, let alone find it and harness it. Music was his compulsion based on a higher vision to create something beautiful and honest. I think that comes from Jeff's deep understanding of what music really is on a primitive and spiritual level. Technicalities are a means to not just 'good pleasing sound' but an honest revolution of the soul
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And as a man, agreeing with imagine_peace, he talked in a way that made everything poetry. some of the things he's said have kept with me all my life, and I use them for my own mantras. Its also the excitement and fun in his voice, and his passions for things and funny incidents. He may have been a sad guy, but I don't see him as tragic, and I love him for his sparks of happiness, which I see a lot of when he's being interviewed and when he's interacting with his audience and singing. There is loads of fun in Jeff, he wasn't a tragic figure in my eyes at all.
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"He was very expressive, very funny…He would dance and sing and imitate cartoon characters and use funny voices and pretty much entertain folks…He was a hilariously happy-go-lucky sort of individual. Dogs sought him out, kitty cats climbed up in his lap and babies gravitated towards him, and he would gravitate towards them. I mean if we were invited to a wedding and somebody said ‘Where’s Jeff’ I’d go, ‘Well, where are the kids?’ And he would be rolling around in the grass with them or playing games or teaching them nursery rhymes or songs or singing with them or something like that."
So sad, but so happy.
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I think his tragic quality is completely overplayed due to his death. personally. He had a lot of life in him yet.
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But yeah, these are wonderful quotes. Here are some of my favorites:
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
"I want people to stay still for a while and let something they have no power over wash over them, gladly, and be a little better for it."
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