"I figured that if anyone could be wildly popular in one town, then that could be replicated everywhere, all you have to do is get the word out."

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Source: Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

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