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Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

Elliott Smith

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Elliott Smith
Age: 34 †
Born: 1969
Born: August 6
Died: 2003
Died: October 21
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Omaha
Nebraska
Steven Paul Elliott Smith
Steven Paul Smith
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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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I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.
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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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It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
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I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
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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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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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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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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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You can't get better at things you never play.
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I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.
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