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“. . . '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.”
― Elliott Smith

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

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

“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.”
― Elliott Smith

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

“What I used to be will pass away and then you'll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me”
― Elliott Smith

“Why would you want any other, when you’re a world within a world?”
― Elliott Smith

“It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrong
tell Mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alone
in the place where I make no mistakes
in the place where I have what it takes”
― Elliott Smith

“Tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint”
― Elliott Smith

“I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.”
― Elliott Smith

“They say that God makes problems
Just to see what you can stand
Before you do as the devil pleases
Give up the thing you love”
― Elliott Smith

“Twilight"

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 it's dying
She's a sight to see
She's good to me
But I'm already somebody's baby
She's a pretty thing
And she knows everything
But I'm already somebody's baby
You don't deserve to be lonely
But those drugs you've got won't make you feel better
Pretty soon you'll find it's the only
Little part of your life you're keeping together
I'm nice to you
I could make it through
But you're already somebody's baby
I could make you smile
If you stayed a while
But how long will you stay with me, baby?
Because your candle burns too bright
Well I almost forgot it was twilight
Even if I think that you are right
Well I'm tired of being down, I got no fight
You're wonderful
And it's beautiful
But I'm already somebody's baby
And if I went with you
I'd disappoint you too
Well I'm already somebody's baby
Already somebody's baby”
― Elliott Smith

“I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.”
― Elliott Smith

“Everything means nothing to me.”
― Elliott Smith

“In The Lost And Found (Honky Bach)"

He held his breath to hold your hand
To walk the stairsteps in pairs
Climbing up a slippery slope
I'm in love, love I hope
Don't go home Angelina
Stay with me, hanging around in the lost and found
He kissed you quick, feeling weird
Lonely leered, and disappeared
This is such a simple place
The passing time can't erase
Don't go home Angelina
Paint tomorrow blue
Day breaks
But every morning when he wakes he thinks of you
I'm alone, but that's okay
I don't mind most of the time
I don't feel afraid to die
She was here, passing by
Don't go home Angelina
Stay with me, hanging around in the lost and found
Stay with me, hanging around in the lost and found”
― Elliott Smith

“I'm a junkyard of false starts and I don't need your permission to bury my love.”
― Elliott Smith

“If you're alone then it must be you who wants to be apart.”
― Elliott Smith

“This is not my life. It's just a fond farewell to a friend.”
― Elliott Smith

“God don't make no junk but it's plain to see that He still made me.”
― Elliott Smith