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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. (Patti Smith)
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star. View quote
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. View quote
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England. View quote
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Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty. View quote
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris. View quote
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My mother answers all my fan mail. View quote
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. View quote
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Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient. View quote
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools. View quote
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My sunglasses are like my guitar. (Patti Smith)
Christianity made us think there's one heaven. View quote
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs. View quote
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. View quote
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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand? View quote
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Freedom is... the right to write the wrong words. View quote
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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others. View quote
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer. View quote
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man. View quote
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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. View quote
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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech,, November 17, 2010) (Patti Smith)
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go. View quote
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Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil. View quote
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How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they're gone? View quote
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I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond. View quote
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