Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smithwas an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived for much of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, though he was also proficient with piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style, characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and used multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth6 August 1969
CityOmaha, NE
CountryUnited States of America
Elliott Smith quotes about
Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.
I think that record gave me a reputation for being a really dark, depressed person but I think I'm just about as happy as all the other people I know.
I'm comfortable apart,It's all written on my chartThat I take what's given to meMost cooperatively.I do what people sayAnd lie in bed all dayAbsolutely horrified,I hope you're satisfied.
I'm comfortable apart, It's all written on my chart That I take what's given to me Most cooperatively. I do what people say And lie in bed all day Absolutely horrified, I hope you're satisfied.
There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs...
I didnt know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.
I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.
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.
A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.
People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.
People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.
I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
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.
There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.