Elliott Smith Quotes
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I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
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It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.
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I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.
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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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I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
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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 don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.
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I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.
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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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I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.
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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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If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
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The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.
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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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I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
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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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I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
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And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
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I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?
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I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.
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I don't intend to write depressing songs and I'd probably rather write happy ones
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It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
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There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.
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when asked about cigarettes I don't recommend them... but I smoke them.