Patti Smith Quotes
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For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.
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Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.
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What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
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Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.
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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.
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The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
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I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.
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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
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I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.
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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.
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The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
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I never thought I was gonna live to 30.
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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
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Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.
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My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something.
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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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.
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I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.
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I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
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I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
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I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
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Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.
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I like gettin' old.
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The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.