4 Elliott Smith Quotes on Art

Elliott Smith quotes on art

3. 'Everybody 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.'

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

24. They took your life apart And called your failures art They were wrong, though They won't know 'Til tomorrow

30. Everything here is free Everything but you and me This painting never dries Stupidity tries