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I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?
Elliott Smith
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Elliott Smith
Age: 34 †
Born: 1969
Born: August 6
Died: 2003
Died: October 21
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Omaha
Nebraska
Steven Paul Elliott Smith
Steven Paul Smith
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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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If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
Elliott Smith
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 music to make it a tool for something else.
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I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.
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Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.
Elliott Smith
I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
Elliott Smith
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.
Elliott Smith
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 the back and sang the song.
Elliott Smith
It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.
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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.
Elliott Smith
I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.
Elliott Smith
I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.
Elliott Smith
I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record
Elliott Smith
All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.
Elliott Smith
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
Elliott Smith
I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not. But like when I see a movie, for example, that I really like, that moves me or whatever, it's usually happy and sad at the same time.
Elliott Smith
Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.
Elliott Smith
I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.
Elliott Smith
Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.
Elliott Smith
It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.
Elliott Smith
