Elliott Smith

“It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrongtell Mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alonein the place where I make no mistakesin the place where I have what it takes”

“Tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint”

“Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail. Dying is another way...”

“i'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow”

“. . . '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.”

“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.”

“You can't get better at things you never play.”