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Elliott Smith

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I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.


— Elliott Smith


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It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.


— Elliott Smith


#caught #got #i #touches #two

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.


— Elliott Smith


#ball #band #bomb #carry #certain

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.


— Elliott Smith


#lot #tell #truth #usually

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.


— Elliott Smith


#just #lot #meaning #now #popular

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.


— Elliott Smith


#girlfriend #i #me #out #put

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.


— Elliott Smith


#filter #fun #live #lot #playing

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.


— Elliott Smith


#band #i #know #like #lots

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.


— Elliott Smith


#argument #better #company #doing #historically






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Did you know about Elliott Smith?

"Went straight through in four years" he explained to Under the Radar in 2003. It featured the return of Rothrock Schnapf Brion and Waronker and was partially recorded at Abbey Road Studios in England with an obvious Beatles influence in the songwriting and production. Crane wrote "I hadn't talked to Elliott in over a year.

Smith's primary instrument was the guitar but he was also proficient with piano clarinet bass guitar drums and harmonica. The autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted.

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