Patti Smith Quotes
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Patti Smith Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.
Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.
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.
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.
I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.
What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.
Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.
I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.
Obviously, I'm not homeless. I'm not an old alcoholic. I'm not jumping trains. I just like to live in a certain way.
I was raised Jehovah's Witness. I was in Bible school at five or six years old, but I wouldn't say that we were a religious family.
The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.
I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
I haven't had the most thrilling lifestyle. I was a pretty good dresser, but I would have a pretty boring 'Behind the Music.'
We are wooed, then mocked, plagued like Amfortas, King of the Grail Knights, by a wound refusing heal.
I tried to write something about Jesse but couldn't, as her face echoed her father's and the proud palace where the ghosts of our old life dwell.
I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself.
For a brief moment I felt as if I might die; and just as quickly I knew everything would be all right.
If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
Why is it that we lose the things we love, and things cavalier cling to us and will be the measure of our worth after we're gone?
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.
I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.