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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

Patti Smith

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Human Rights Activist
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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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Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
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As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
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You don't want to OD on improvisation.
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We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.
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I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.
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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.
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Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.
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If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.
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