Elliott Smith Quotes on Emotion
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'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.'
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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.
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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.
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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