Elliott Smith Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.

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

Fights problems with bigger problems.