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Patti Smith Inspirational Quotes (274)

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Words are just rules and regulations to me.
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I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.
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I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.
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When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
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New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.
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Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.
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I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.
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Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.
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I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.
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I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.
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Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.
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I love being alive. I like being a human being.
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I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
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A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.
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That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.
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Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
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If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
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My sunglasses are like my guitar.
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I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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