Elliott Smith
On making the album Figure 8
I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don’t think perfection is very artful. But there’s something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn’t have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it’s just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.
– interview in the Boston Herald, 2000
This video always makes me wonder what music is being played in San Francisco today >>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl0nDWjS_8k