Elliott Smith Quotes (38 Quotes)



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

    There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.

    I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.

    I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.


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

    I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

    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.

    There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

    I'm comfortable apart,It's all written on my chartThat I take what's given to meMost cooperatively.I do what people sayAnd lie in bed all dayAbsolutely horrified,I hope you're satisfied.

    I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

    But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

    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.

    I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

    I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

    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.

    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.

    I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

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

    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.

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

    If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

    Items like televisions and computers are considered hazardous waste. If we have to dispose of an item like that now, it isn't just a matter of putting it in the trash. It requires special handling.

    I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.

    Static in my head,the reflected sound of everything,tried to go to where it led,but it didn't lead to anything.

    The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

    I think that record gave me a reputation for being a really dark, depressed person but I think I'm just about as happy as all the other people I know.

    Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.

    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 it's dying.


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

    I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

    It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

    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.

    In the event of the band dissolving, any members could be kept to that contract with or without their consent under the same terms.

    They don't put any pressure on me to do anything in particular and Dreamworks didn't either so this was a really easy record to make.

    I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

    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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