Elliott Smith Quotes - Page 2

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• I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.

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  Song, Thinking, Issues

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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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  Moving, Example

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• Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

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  Dream, People, Battle

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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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  Thinking, People, Convincing

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• I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

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  Moving, Portland, Wanted

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• I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

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  Song, Writing, People

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• I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

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  Leaving, Enemy, Comfort

  Song: A Fond Farewell, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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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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  Cities, People, Faces

  Song: High Times, Album: New Moon, 2007

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• Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

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  Cheating, Chaos, Drag

  Song: Baby Britain, Album: XO

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• It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

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  Telling The Truth, Easier

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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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  Moon, Sun, Faults

  Song: Little One, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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• I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

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  Thinking, Who I Am, Important

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• I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

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  Crush, Thinking, I Smile

  "Strange Parallel". Documentary, 1998.

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• It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning

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  Song, Reality, Right Now

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• There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.

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  People, Drug, Way

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• They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

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  Devil, Problem, Please

  Song: Pitseleh, Album: XO

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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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  Balls, Band, Bombs

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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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  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

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• I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members

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  Leaving, Paws, Bears

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• I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

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  New York, Portland, Different

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• My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

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  Song, Girlfriend, Records

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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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  Long, Records, Want

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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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  Stupid, Mean, Two

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• I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ... I just didn't think other people would like it, so I didn't play it for them but eventually I got over that, which I'm happy that I did, because it's kind of a drag to be playing a kind of music that you don't really like as much as another kind.

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  Song, Teenager, Thinking

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