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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.
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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Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.
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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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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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I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
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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 want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.
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You can't get better at things you never play.
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I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?
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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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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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If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
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All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.
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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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It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
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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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I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.
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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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