But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
Elliott SmithMusic is worth doing just because. It doesnโt have to be justified by some political point of view, and itโs kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.
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