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Patti Smith Inspirational Quotes (274)

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I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.
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For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.
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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
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By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary, because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood.
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The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
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I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.
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Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
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As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
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Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.
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I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.
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Your soul was like a network of spittle.
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I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
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One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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What will happen to us? I asked. There will always be us, he answered.
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Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.
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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
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Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.
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I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.
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I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.
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I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.
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