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I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.
Elliott Smith
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Elliott Smith
Age: 34 †
Born: 1969
Born: August 6
Died: 2003
Died: October 21
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Singer-Songwriter
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Omaha
Nebraska
Steven Paul Elliott Smith
Steven Paul Smith
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I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.
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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.
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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 don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.
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I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
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It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
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But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
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There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.
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Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks
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Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.
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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 wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?
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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 to see the day when its dying.
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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.
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Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.
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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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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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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.
Elliott Smith
You can't get better at things you never play.
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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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