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My sunglasses are like my guitar.

Patti Smith

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
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I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.
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I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
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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 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 knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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