Patti Quotes

Blessedness is within us all. — Patti Smith

Tell Aretha I'll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her. — Patti LaBelle

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft. — Patti LaBelle

He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin. — Patti Smith

My favorite splurge would be gluten-free pizza. Or I'm a total truffle addict so truffle mac and cheese. — Patti Stanger

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. — Patti Smith

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. — Patti Page

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. — Patti Smith

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched. — Patti Davis

I was very shy. I'm still shy. — Patti LaBelle

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. — Patti Smith

I got some coffee and stood looking at the sky. — Patti Smith

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line
you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. — Patti Smith

a black granite cube containing only the character mu — Patti Smith

each possessed something the other wanted and, in that way, complemented the other. — Patti Smith

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true. — Patti Smith

He flashed a huge smile, one of absolute joy, from a place of no beginning or end. — Patti Smith

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. — Patti Smith

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party. — Patti LaBelle

Paths that cross will cross again. — Patti Smith

I'm more materialistic about myself than I am about objects — Patti Smith

Well now," the dragon says to her in a voice like rolling thunder, "who are you really here to save? — Patti Larsen

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves. — Patti Smith

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them. — Patti Smith

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape. — Patti Davis

Who can know the heart of youth except youth itself. — Patti Smith

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band. — Patti LuPone

My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example. — Patti Smith

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption. — Patti Stanger

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. — Patti LaBelle

When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports. — Patti Smith

The mind of a child is like a kiss on the forehead - open and disinterested — Patti Smith

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste. — Patti Smith

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people. — Patti LaBelle

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe) — Patti Smith

The best substitute for money is ingenuity ... — Patti Page

I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage. — Patti Smith

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day. — Patti Smith

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets. — Patti Smith

We seek to stay present, even as the ghosts attempt to draw us away. — Patti Smith

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person. — Patti Davis

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners. — Patti LaBelle

It's not so easy writing about nothing. — Patti Smith

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing. — Patti Smith

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them. — Patti LuPone

A real prison breakfast" I said.
"Yeah, but we are free."
And that summed it up. — Patti Smith

[W]ithout a doubt we sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality. — Patti Smith

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. — Patti Smith

I've been writing and making my own music for a long time. — Patti Scialfa

Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview) — Patti Smith

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself? — Patti Smith

Calling is for # Men - Texting is for # Teenagers . — Patti Stanger

I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe. — Patti Stanger

If you're alive, you're creative. — Patti Digh

A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said. — Patti Callahan Henry

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive. — Patti Smith

I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. — Patti Davis

The right thing at the wrong time is never the right thing. — Patti Callahan Henry

I just create, that's what I do. — Patti LuPone

No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I've done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy. — Patti Smith

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

Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures. — Patti Smith

-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. — Patti Smith

I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need. — Patti Smith

It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life. — Patti Smith

I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times. — Ellie Goulding

Friendship makes thieves of us all — Patti Smith

We are always - always- in choice. — Patti Digh

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand. — Patti Page

My sunglasses are like my guitar. — Patti Smith

Nothing was spoken, it was just mutually understood. — Patti Smith

It ain't so easy writing about nothin — Patti Smith

I used to practice Wicca. — Patti Stanger

I don't really sell many records. — Patti Scialfa

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. — Patti Smith

Your soul was like a network of spittle. — Patti Smith

Boredom is for the selfish. — Patti Digh

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him. — Patti Smith

When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album. — Patti Smith

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made. — Patti Smith

Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you. — Patti Digh

We would work side by side for hours, in a state of mutual concentration. — Patti Smith

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more. — Patti Smith

I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that. — Patti Stanger

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. — Patti Smith

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. — Patti Smith

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry. — Patti Smith

Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance. — Patti Stanger

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. — Patti Smith

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life. — Patti Smith

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself. — Patti Davis

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it. — Patti Davis

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. — Patti Smith

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner. — Patti Davis

The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new. — Patti Smith

Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death. — Patti Callahan Henry

In the end, it's all about taking your time and enjoying the journey without worrying too much about the destination. — Patti Stanger

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic. — Patti Smith

We're not show-business people. We have a life. — Patti LuPone

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie. — Patti Smith