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I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female I'm an artist.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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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When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: Away in the Manger, William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.
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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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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 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 think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.
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I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on. It was a trauma.
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A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.
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I can't bear working with a click track, we're not click track people. But for Mercy Is ... we all got in one mind because the song is delicate it's not a song that showcases a vocal or some virtuoso.
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I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.
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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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Paths that cross will cross again
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We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.
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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
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What will happen to us? I asked. There will always be us, he answered.
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
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I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection
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I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.
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