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[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“Trying to look good just gets on my nerves.”

Elliott Smith

[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“The purpose of unhappiness is to point your life in a better direction, where you make things better, otherwise there would be no point to being unhappy, it would just be a place that is brutal. If you eat a poisonous plant, it makes you sick, so you learn not to eat that plant, so…it’s like that.” Elliott Smith

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[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“I don’t know why I keep trying. People always end up being mad at me.”

Elliott Smith

[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“There’s a humor and a ‘fuck you’ insistence in those songs which is also a weird kind of optimism, but people only seem to hear the darker tone.”

Elliott Smith

[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“In 1999, I got turned down over the phone for a press pass to the Rolling Stones show in Charlotte that night, and ten minutes later, got a phone call offering a press pass to the Elliott Smith show that same night at Tremont Music Hall. Elliott came onstage wearing a vintage Rolling Stones t-shirt. I still haven’t seen the Stones, but I still think I ended up where I was supposed to be that night. Elliott was really good that night. The crowd was so quiet and reverent, Elliott got spooked and thought that they weren’t into the show. So he just said, “Goodnight”, and that was it! He came out to sign autographs after the show. I talked to him for a few minutes. He was very nice, and didn’t talk much beyond a whisper. I still have the album he signed, “To Daniel, XO Elliott Smith.” A few years ago, I decided to scan my photos from that night. I finished about half-a-roll (I shot four rolls of film, that night), started looking at the photos, and just…. stopped. A flood of emotions really hit me. Hard. I still haven’t scanned the rest of the photos. I need to. Someday.”

Daniel Coston

[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“I didn’t watch it [ the Oscars ceremony] on tape for a long time and having seen it one time I will never watch it again, it bummed me out. I looked so fucking fragile and I’m not fragile like that. What the fuck… I don’t even understand what I’m putting across to people. I don’t even know what it is, and when I see it, I’m just kind of appalled.”

Elliott Smith

[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“I already did my time where I felt everything I did was a big piece of crap, and that the music business was going to grind me into the dirt. Now I just feel good about it. I want to do it.”

Elliott Smith

[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“No, but seriously.”

Elliott Smith

[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“ I still get like, you know, “Mr. Misery” and crap like that.”

Elliott Smith

[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“I was good at taking tests because the answer is always embedded in the question. It’s an accidental little skill.”

Elliott Smith

[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“I wrote a lot of sweet, happy melodies this time, but the songs aren’t really happy. But you can pretend they’re happy.”

Elliott Smith

[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“Well if you don’t get too bitter, you can find your way around things. When you were saying before that “bitter” is the main enemy,“ I think that’s true just in general, not even just for music. For me personally, that’s enemy number one. Cause if you get bitter, you are sunk. What can you do? It’s harder to be around other people and it’s harder for people to be around you. Being able to be in love with someone is a lot harder. All the things that, to me, make life worthwhile are infinitely harder. But it’s hard not to get bitter about things, apparently.” Elliott Smith

[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“He had a really good sense of humor. Elliott was a really funny guy, which a lot people don’t know. He kind of had that thing I was just talking about—reserving your strength. At some point, you realize you’re just giving it out, giving it out, giving it out. Then, when it comes time to drive home and get through a hard day, you got 20 minutes left in the show and it’s not going the right way and you have to pull out the stops, and you dip into those reserves, I picked up a bit from him. Other than that, I’ve had a few friends that took this tragic route. He did. I realized that I don’t want to be like that. I love being alive and I love having these moments of beauty and experiencing things. It really sucks when you have friends that have died and you realize every time you’re having a happy moment—it just makes me wonder why they ended up taking such a tragic route.”

Jason Lytle

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7 juin 1999 

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[soflawedandrunkandperfectstill]

“If you call it writing, it sounds like some sort of concentrated effort, calculated and deliberate. Some people can do it like that, but it isn’t my way. I can’t get anything done if I sit down and say I’m going to write a song. Too much concentration makes my imagination shut down. I like distractions - which is why I make things up in bars or on the subway or walking around… All the impressions you get in a minute or an hour are countless. All that stuff people absorb but have no use for because they can’t use it to make money or whatever. For me, that comes out in songs.” Elliott Smith