Elliott Smith Quotes

• Playing it safe is the most popular way to fail.

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  Topics in Advice

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

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Parade, Mississippi

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Band, Filtered

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Band, Playing, Myself

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Knew, Person

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Self, Place

• And I’m not trying to write heavy songs.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heavy, Songs

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Popular, Songs, Meaningless

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Studio, Recordings, Real, Producers

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Thinking, Yourself

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Records

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Expecting

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Interesting, Record

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hard, Making

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Think, Performance, Oscars

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

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  Topics in God

  Tags in People

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Girlfriend, Convinced, Myself, Songs

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in ridiculous, Certain, Point

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

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Portland

• 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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  Topics in Life, Money

  Tags in Importance

Elliott Smith (30)

Birth:	6th August, 1969
Death:	21st October, 2003
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

About

Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994, with releases on the independent record labels Cavity Search and Kill Rock Stars. Smith rose to mainstream prominence when his song "Miss Misery"—included in the soundtrack for the film Good Will Hunting—was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category in 1998. At the time of his death, he was working on his sixth studio album, From a Basement on the Hill, which was posthumously completed and released in 2004.

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