People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.
Elliott SmithCertain 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
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 SmithThere are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.
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