Patti Smith Quotes
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I've always looked the same. 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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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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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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My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example.
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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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My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.
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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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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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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
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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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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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Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
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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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I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
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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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I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.
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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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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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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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Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
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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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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.