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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
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Steven Paul Elliott Smith
Steven Paul Smith
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All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.
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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 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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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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I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record
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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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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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If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
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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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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 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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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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It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
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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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There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.
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