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Patti Smith Inspirational Quotes (274)

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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.
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My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.
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I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.
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As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
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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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I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
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I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.
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To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
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I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.
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I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.
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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 never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.
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I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.
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If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, Don't film me anymore, [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them he just respected their wishes.
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Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
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To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
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Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.
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I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.
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I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
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