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Elliott Smith

"I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band."

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Elliott Smith
"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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Elliott Smith
"I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying."

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Elliott Smith
"I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record."

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Elliott Smith
"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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Elliott Smith
"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"

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Elliott Smith
"It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin."

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Elliott Smith
"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."

Time

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Elliott Smith
"Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else."

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Elliott Smith
"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."

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Elliott Smith
"I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was."

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