Patti Smith Quotes
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No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I've done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy.
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Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.
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I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.
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Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
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Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.
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Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.
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We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.
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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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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
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When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
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I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.
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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
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It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
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My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example.
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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 always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
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I like really hot coffee, not too strong.
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Look around you, all around youRiding on a copper waveDo you like the world around you?Are you ready to behave?
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When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
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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.