Top 15 Elliott Smith

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"You turned white like a saint"

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"She appears compose,
So she is I suppose,
Who can really tell,"

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"Is it destruction that you're required to feel ?"

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"Some people think it's about the city, some people think it's about the record industry, and some people think it's about a girl. And when I was making it up I was making it up about a feeling, you know, that could be a feeling you get from a city or from a person or from a situation. For me, my big kick when I was writing the words was not to make it about any one of those things exclusively and to try and make it so that it was about that feeling. It didn't matter what was giving you that feeling. It's just sometimes people get that feeling. At least I do."

Elliott Smith (in an interview with Erik Pedersen)

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Q: Which song of the last 20 years do you wish you'd written?
A: Elliott Smith's Between the Bars.

Madonna (in Q Magazine's November 2006 interview)

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'Say Yes' was written about someone particular and I almost never do that. I was really in love with someone."

Elliott Smith (in a Comes With a Smile interview)

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"One day I got sick
She played me a nasty old trick "

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"'I Didn't Understand" was a piano song. Then, after all those [on XO] where I use more instruments than I used to, it seemed interesting to have one without any instrument."

Elliott Smith (in a Les Inrockuptibles interview)

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They say that god makes problems just to see what you can stand,
Before you do as the devil pleases,
And give up the thing you love,

But no one deserves it,

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"Needle in the Hay is, for me, the darkest one and it's a big 'fuck you' song to anybody and everybody."

Elliott Smith (in a Comes With a Smile interview)

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Merci Paranoid Park

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"The trumpet has obviously been drinking
'Cos he's fucking up even the simplest lines
They say it's a sight that's quite worth seeing
It's just that everyone's interest is stronger than mine"

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"The street's wet you can tell by the sound of the cars"

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"It was made up when I had been in a psychedelic state, shall we say, for a couple of days... and that was the product of that. That one was recorded really quickly, so I really like how it turned out... probably because it required next to no effort."

Elliott Smith (in an interview with Adam Walton)