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Elliott SmithSo if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.
Elliott SmithPeople 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.
Elliott SmithEverybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.
Elliott Smith