126 Quotes by Elliott Smith

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

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.

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

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

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

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

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.