126 Quotes by Elliott Smith

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything.

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

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.

I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.