Latest Elliott Smith Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Elliott Smith

  Nice, People, Mad

• 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.

  Elliott Smith

  Moving, Example

• 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.

  Elliott Smith

  Chaos, Absence, Easier

• People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

  Elliott Smith

  People, Creative, Pieces

• People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.

  Elliott Smith

  People, Filters, Records

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

  Elliott Smith

  People, Drug, Way

• 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.

  Elliott Smith

  Dream, People, Battle

• 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.

  Elliott Smith

  Sound, Cold, Made

• 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.

  Elliott Smith

  Song, Teenager, Thinking

• 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.

  Elliott Smith

  Suicide, Self, Location

• I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

  Elliott Smith

  Kind, Bigs, Persons