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All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

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Elliott Smith
Age: 34 †
Born: 1969
Born: August 6
Died: 2003
Died: October 21
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Steven Paul Elliott Smith
Steven Paul Smith
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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.
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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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I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
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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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There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.
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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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But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
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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 wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?
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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.
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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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Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.
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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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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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Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.
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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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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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You can't get better at things you never play.
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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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It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
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