Patti Smith Quotes
In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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Growing up was very interesting for me. If you were Haitian, people just automatically assumed that English was a second language. So they had a special class for my brother and I, but we spoke proper English.
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I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.
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We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.
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In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.
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In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
