Top 100 Quotes About Patti Smith

#1. My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.

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#2. When I'm writing a book, I don't have any responsibility to anyone. I'm solitary. I'm writing on my own. I write by hand. And I write every day. I mean, it's part of my daily discipline.

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#3. I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

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#4. I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

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#5. If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's something beautiful about that.

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#6. He tried everything from science to voodoo, everything buy prayer. That, at least, I could give him in abundance. I prayed ceaselessly for him, a desperate human prayer. Not for his life, no one could take that cup from him, but for the strength to endure the unendurable.

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#7. Said good-bye to my corner. - What will happen to the tables and chairs? I asked.

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#8. I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

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#9. Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

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#10. I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.

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#11. Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.

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#12. I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

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#13. People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

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#14. Oh, to be reborn within the pages of a book.

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#15. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

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#16. I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.

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#17. My sunglasses are like my guitar.

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#18. Without realizing it, I had said goodbye to traditional employment. I never punched a clock again. I made my own time and my own money.

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#19. I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

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#20. Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

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#21. Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

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#22. I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

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#23. I was there for these moments, but so young and preoccupied with my own thoughts that I hardly recognized them as moments.

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#24. Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.

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#25. Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

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#26. We should not center our lives on receiving praise and admiration. If we are secure in our faith, our identity will be based on the love of God, not the opinion of others.

Patti J. Smith

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#27. I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

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#28. Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.

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#29. Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

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#30. We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

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#31. Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

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#32. I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

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#33. I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

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#34. I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

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#35. I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

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#36. You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

Ellie Goulding

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#37. Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.

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#38. When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

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#39. We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

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#40. It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

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#41. I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.

Michael Stipe

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#42. I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'

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#43. For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.

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#44. Patti, did art get us?'
I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'
Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.

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#45. I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.

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#46. I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

Barry McGee

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#47. I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself.

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#48. What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

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#49. Without noticing, I slip into a light yet lingering malaise. Not a depression, more like a fascination for melancholia, which I turn in my hand as if it were a small planet, streaked in shadow, impossibly blue.

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#50. One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

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#51. My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills ... So my parents always struggled.

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#52. I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

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#53. My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

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#54. The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.

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#55. -What is the song about? I asked.
-Death, he answered with a laugh. But don't worry, nobody dies, it is the death of love.

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#56. By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary," because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood.

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#57. I was attracted to Robert's work because his visual vocabulary was akin to my poetic one, even if we seemed to be moving toward different destinations. Robert always would tell me, "Nothing is finished until you see it.

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#58. I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

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#59. Nothing was spoken, it was just mutually understood.

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#60. Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.

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#61. So be we king
or be we bum
the reed still whistles
the heart still hums

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#62. I love playing the Fillmore. I love the walk from the hotel and climbing up those old, iron stairs that lead to the stage. I imagine Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and all those other great bands climbing those same stairs.

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#63. If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.

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#64. My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.

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#65. I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates ...

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#66. Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

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#67. Some things are not lost but sacrificed.

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#68. I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway.

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#69. It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life.

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#70. Everything I came up with seemed irreverent or irrelevant.

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#71. One day we'll go in together, and the work will be ours.

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#72. I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.

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#73. And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire.

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#74. I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

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#75. I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

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#76. Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.

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#77. Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to the silence. In the clanging twirl of our lives, these roles would reverse many times

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#78. Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

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#79. Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

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#80. Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

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#81. There was an air of vague and unsettling paranoia, an undercurrent of rumors, snatched fragments of conversation anticipating future revolution.

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#82. I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

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#83. These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and roll as it pulled me through a difficult adolescence. The joy I experienced when I danced. The moral power I gleaned in taking responsibility for one's action.
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#84. In the beginning was real time. A woman enters a garden that is bursting with color. She has no memory, only a burgeoning curiosity. She approaches the man. He is not curious. He stands before a tree.

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#85. Here is joy and neglect. A little mescal. A little jacking off, but mostly just work. - This is how I live, I am thinking.

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#86. The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

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#87. I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

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#88. Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

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#89. I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.

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#90. We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

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#91. As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

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#92. Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.

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#93. I followed whatever train I wanted. I wrote without writing - of genies and hustlers and mythic travelers, my vagabondia. Then I would walk back home, happily satisfied, and resume my daily tasks.

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#94. He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin.

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#95. A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

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#96. Its great thorns pierced the canvas, and its heavy fragrance rushed within, enveloping his sleep, becoming one with his breath, and penetrated the chambers of his exploding heart.

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#97. What a drug this little book is; to imbibe it is to find oneself presuming his process. I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. It is not mere envy but a delusional quickening in the blood.

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#98. I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

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#99. I like gettin' old.

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#100. I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women.

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