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Patti Smith Inspirational Quotes (274)

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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.
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Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.
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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
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As a child I was such an intense daydreamer I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.
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I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.
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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.
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My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.
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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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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.
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I worked for Hillary [Clinton] when I was young - when she was running for the Senate. I was fundraising and things, I see all of these people as political in a way that isn't humanistic. I'm just watching and hoping that someone is going to distinguish himself or herself as comprehending what we need.
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I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
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New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.
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[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.
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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
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I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, Where's my car?
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Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
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