4 Elliott Smith Quotes on Emotion

Elliott Smith quotes on emotion

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.'

14. I'm a roman candle My head is full of flames I want to hurt him I want to give him pain And make him feel this pretty burn.

20. I'm going out now like a baby A naive unsatisfiable baby Grabbing onto whatever's around For the soaring high or the crushing down With hidden cracks that don't show, but that constantly just grow.

25. She appears composed So she is, I suppose Who can really tell? She shows no emotion at all Stares into space like a dead china doll