Patti Smith Quotes
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
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Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.
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It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.
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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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My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'
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My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.
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I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
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Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.
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I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.
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My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example.
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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
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If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
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My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.
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I haven't had the most thrilling lifestyle. I was a pretty good dresser, but I would have a pretty boring 'Behind the Music.'
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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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The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
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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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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 younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.