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Patti Smith Inspirational Quotes (274)

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Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.
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We never had any children, he said ruefully. Our work was our children.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
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When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.
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The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.
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Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.
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We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.
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We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
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We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.
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It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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I always wear the same thing onstage.
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I wanted to remember the original energy strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.
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I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.
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Punk rock is just another word for freedom.
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No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
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Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
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My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.
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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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Grief isn't all tears.
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I was like one of the boys in school who flap their legs frantically under the desk. I always had this weird feeling between my legs and I had no idea what it was. I didn't know girls masturbated. I never touched myself or anything.
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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your responsibility is back again to your people.
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People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.
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