Ben Harper:

Canada’s Jam!

“Jeff is one of my favorite musicians and singers of all time. Never have I seen such infinite musical potential in anyone...”

U2’s Bono:

MOJO Magazine

“Jeff Buckley was a pure drop in an ocean of noise”.

Jimmy Page:

Mojo Magazine

"The album that I've been listening to for the last 18 months is Grace by Jeff Buckley. He is a great, great singer. He has such an emotional range, doing songs by Benjamin Britten and Leonard Cohen as well as his own - such technique and command.

When the Page/Plant tour hit Australia, we saw [the band] and we were knocked out. It was very moving. Someone heckled him from the audience - 'Stop playing that heavy stuff!' - but he made the perfect reply: 'Music should be like making love - sometimes you want it soft and tender, other times you want it hard and aggressive.' I felt he paid us a great compliment with his music in that style."

Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins:

"I'd love to sing with Jeff Buckley ... He is currently making his first album, and if it's anything like a radio session I heard by him, it should be amazing. He's written this song called 'Grace', which literally makes the hair on my neck stand on end. I was sweating like a fucking June bride when I first heard him. Music has never done that to me before."

Eddie Vedder:

Monkeywrench Radio

“Man I had this Guy with me once ... and we were sittin' down and talkin' and jammin'... He played has version of Indifference for me... man I tell ya... I' ll never forget the way He did it... I was just fuckin' speechless... one of the most memorable moments of my life... I just wish I had seen him more.”

Ben Folds:

CMJ

"My singing used to be awful," admits Folds. "I don't have Jeff Buckley's voice…It can be kind of scary. You're on the radio next to -- well, on the shelf next to Jeff Buckley. We're in the B's. People can flip through and pick up his record instead and hear a lot better singer. He has that knack…”
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Elvis Costello:

MOJO Magazine

“… Not everyone can get up and sing something they take a liking to and make it their own, sing true to their heart and be curious about all different strains of music. Corpus Christi Carol was a completely conceived interpretation. I'd never heard the piece before and when I heard the original I realized what Jeff had done was even more amazing. He'd taken it into his own world. That's something my favorite classical musicians can do, be themselves but use all that expertise to make the music more beautiful. Jeff did that naturally. Only a handful of people are capable of that…

My last memory of him was at (a) little party in the green room ... There were all these people sitting round Jeff who'd never met before…all talking and laughing about music. He'd charmed everybody. I'd much rather remember that than anything”.

Joan Osborne:

Letter posted to the internet June 19th 1997

“…There was a period when I couldn't get through the day without hearing him sing 'Hallelujah' 3 or 4 times. He had a one in a billion voice and an emotionally piercing guitar style and.....I know, everyone is saying this, but it hurts so much to lose an artist who was capable of so much before he'd had a chance to do his best work. I guess I should be thankful for what there is: the album "Grace", his first EP, the bootleg live cassettes floating around, and whatever SONY will inevitably scrape together for release. It's a fucking shame."