Elliott Smith Quotes: top 61 famous quotes about Elliott Smith

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

Why would you want any other, when you're a world within a world? — Elliott Smith

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

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

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

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not. — Elliott Smith

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

Everything means nothing to me — Elliott Smith

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone. — Elliott Smith

You can't get better at things you never play. — Elliott Smith

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

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

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

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

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly. — Elliott Smith

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually. — Elliott Smith

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

I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous. — Elliott Smith

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song. — Elliott Smith

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

Tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint — Elliott Smith

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

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail, — Elliott Smith

What I used to be will pass away and then you'll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me — Elliott Smith

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson. — Bryan Greenberg

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. — Elliott Smith

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

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird. — Elliott Smith

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

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

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

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

Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating. — Elliott Smith

I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear. — Elliott Smith

He kisses like Elliott Smith sings. — Anonymous

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

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

Fights problems with bigger problems. — Elliott Smith

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

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost. — Elliott Smith

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true. — Elliott Smith

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something. — Elliott Smith

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

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. — Elliott Smith

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. — Elliott Smith

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

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs. — Elliott Smith

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

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

i'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow — Elliott Smith

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails. — Nat Wolff

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. — Elliott Smith

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. — Elliott Smith

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 — Elliott Smith

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it. — Slim Moon

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that. — Elliott Smith

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. — Elliott Smith

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. — Elliott Smith

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

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

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