Elliott Smith Quotes

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• I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.
• I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel…
• Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail,
• You can't get better at things you never play.
• 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…
• I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in…
• I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
• I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
• I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.
• But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
• I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.
• They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.
• 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…
• 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…
• Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the…
• I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.
• Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want…
• I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record
• It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning
• 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…

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