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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.
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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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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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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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 was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record
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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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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
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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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 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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It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.
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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 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.
Elliott Smith
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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But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
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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 didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.
Elliott Smith
I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?
Elliott Smith
Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.
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.
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Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.
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