Top 78 Quotes About Elliott Smith: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Elliott Smith

#1. I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

Christopher Owens

#2. I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

Bryan Greenberg

#3. When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

Slim Moon

#4. My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.

Greta Salpeter

#5. I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

Nat Wolff

#6. I got Elliott Smith's photography book as a gift before. The publisher of that book's logo were glasses, and those glasses came to my mind when I was thinking of having a tattoo.

Go Ah-sung

#7. He kisses like Elliott Smith sings.

Anonymous

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

Elliott Smith

#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. Fights problems with bigger problems.

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

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#13. And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

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

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

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#16. He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

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

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#18. Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view, and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

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

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#20. 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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#21. Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

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#22. Tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint

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#23. 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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#24. It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrong
tell Mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alone
in the place where I make no mistakes
in the place where I have what it takes

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#25. You can't get better at things you never play.

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#26. Why would you want any other, when you're a world within a world?

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#27. Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

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

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

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#34. 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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#35. All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. 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.

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

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#45. i'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow

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#46. 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.

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#47. Everything means nothing to me

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#48. 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.

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#49. What I used to be will pass away and then you'll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me

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

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#51. 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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#52. A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

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

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

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

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#56. The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

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#57. Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail,

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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs ...

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

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

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

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

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

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#68. You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that.

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

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

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

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#73. 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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