Heatmiser Quotes

I was being a total actor, acting out a role I didn't even like. I couldn't come out and show where I was coming from. I was always disguised in this loud rock band. [In the beginning] we all got together, everyone wanted to play in a band and it was fun, then after a couple of years we realized that none of us really liked this kind of music, and that we didn't have to play this way. You didn't have to turn all these songs you wrote into these loud... things." He continued: "It was kinda weird – people that came to our shows, a majority of them were people I couldn't relate to at all. Why aren't there more people like me coming to our shows? Well, it's because I'm not even playing the kind of music that I really like.
Elliot Smith

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs. 
Elliott Smith 

As long as I'm making up new songs than I kind of just let the little machine do its work without taking it apart. 
Elliott Smith 

Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else. 
Elliott Smith 

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records. 
Elliott Smith 

I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go. 
Elliott Smith 

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place. 
Elliott Smith 

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do. 
Elliott Smith 

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something. 
Elliott Smith 

I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers. 
Elliott Smith 

I think that record gave me a reputation for being a really dark, depressed person but I think I'm just about as happy as all the other people I know. 
Elliott Smith 

I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records. 
Elliott Smith 

I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things. 
Elliott Smith 

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it? 
Elliott Smith 

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel. 
Elliott Smith 

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. 
Elliott Smith 

In the event of the band dissolving, any members could be kept to that contract with or without their consent under the same terms. 
Elliott Smith 

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 

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

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 

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song. 
Elliott Smith 

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

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