A Quote by Jeff Buckley

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

Jeff Buckley

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Jeff Buckley
American - Musician
November 17, 1966 - May 29, 1997

God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.

Thomas Merton

Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.

Roland Barthes

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

Leon Battista Alberti

Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

Warren Buffett

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

Anne Bancroft

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

Leon Battista Alberti

You start singing by singing what you hear. So everyone, when they first start singing, they naturally are singing like whatever they're hearing, because that's the only way you learned how to sing. So when I was growing up on Lauryn Hill, when I started singing her songs, I literally trained my voice to be able to do runs.

Kehlani

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

Paul the Apostle

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

Will Smith

This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.

Rajneesh

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.