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As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
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Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Patricia Lee Smith
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The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.
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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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For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
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I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.
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Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.
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I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
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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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When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very dangerous territory. I also have come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.
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All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.
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Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.
Patti Smith
I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
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I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.
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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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As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
Patti Smith
I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.
Patti Smith
I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.
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