Patti Smith quotes - page 6

I like gettin' old. (Patti Smith)
It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.
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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.
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Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
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To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
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I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie. (Patti Smith)
Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
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Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.
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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
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Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.
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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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Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.
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I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work. (Patti Smith)
I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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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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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.
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