Patti Smith Quotes
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People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.
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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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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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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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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 didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.
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I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I get up, and if I feel out of sorts, I'll do some exercises, I'll feed my cat, then I go get my coffee, take a notebook, and write for a couple of hours.
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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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Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.
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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.
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I voted for Obama. I was very happy when he won. But Obama hasn't really been able to effectively do anything that has made me... He hasn't helped the environment. He didn't close Guantanamo Bay. He went deeper into Afghanistan.
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I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
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Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
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Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
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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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I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.
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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 had a penchant myself for doing several things at once. I wanted to draw, write, speak.
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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.