Elliott Smith Quotes on Art
-
'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.'
-
'If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.'
-
They took your life apart And called your failures art They were wrong, though They won't know 'Til tomorrow
-
Everything here is free Everything but you and me This painting never dries Stupidity tries