American - Musician | August 6, 1969 - October 21, 2003
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
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Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.
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I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
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Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
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I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.
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I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.
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I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.
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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.
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I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.
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It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.
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And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
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I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
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