Elliott Smith Quotes
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While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.
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So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.
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If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
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I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?
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Everything means nothing to me
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I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.
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I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.
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Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.
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The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.
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A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.
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Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.
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Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.
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I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in
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I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.
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People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.
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You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that.
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I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.
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It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.
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There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.
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I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.
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I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
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The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.
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But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
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I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.
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I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.
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I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
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People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.
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If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun.
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You can't get better at things you never play.
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I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.
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