Quotes by Elliott Smith

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.

Kind

People

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

Right Now

Secret

Wish

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

Beautiful

Bridges

Burning

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

Jobs

Portland

Tree

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

Not Happy

Song

Way

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.

Battle

Dream

People

Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don’t think, ‘Godfathers of Punk.’ You just think, ‘This sounds great.’ The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that’s going to stick in somebody’s memory. But it doesn’t describe it. So ‘depressing’ isn’t a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it — there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

Depressing

Memories

Sadness

Everything means nothing to me

Mean

Fights problems with bigger problems.

Chaos

Fighting

Problem

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.

Long

Sleep

Sunshine

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Absence

Argument

Balls

Band

Battle

Bears

Beautiful

Bigs

Block

Bombs

Bridges

Burning

Cant

Chaos

Cheating

Cities

Cold

Comfort

Convincing

Creative

Crush

Depressing

Devil

Differences

Different

Drag

Dream

Drug

Drug Use

Easier

Enemy

Example

Faces

Failure

Faults

Fear

Feelings

Feels

Feet

Fighting

Filters

Floats

Fun

Get Better

Girlfriend

Guitar

Hard Times

Heart

I Smile

Ideas

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Quotes by Elliott Smith

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.

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

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

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

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

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.

Everything means nothing to me

Fights problems with bigger problems.

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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