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Patti Smith quotes - page 2
Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.
Patti Smith
Look around you, all around you Riding on a copper wave Do you like the world around you? Are you ready to behave?
Patti Smith
She is a soldier. She will not be defeated.
Patti Smith
I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.
Patti Smith
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
Patti Smith
So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.
Patti Smith
No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
Patti Smith
Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
Patti Smith
Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
Patti Smith
What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.
Patti Smith
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.
Patti Smith
Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?
Patti Smith
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
Patti Smith
We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.
Patti Smith
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
Patti Smith
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.
Patti Smith
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
Patti Smith
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
Patti Smith
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
Patti Smith
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
Patti Smith
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
Patti Smith
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
Patti Smith
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