Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
Patti Smith
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Visual Artist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
Jersey
Library
Raised
South
Small
Culture
Else
Nothing
Rural
More quotes by Patti Smith
I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.
Patti Smith
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.
Patti Smith
If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, Don't film me anymore, [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them he just respected their wishes.
Patti Smith
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
Patti Smith
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.
Patti Smith
Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
Patti Smith
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
Patti Smith
I always wear the same thing onstage.
Patti Smith
I always know that everything I do is the best I could do.
Patti Smith
Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
Patti Smith
I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.
Patti Smith
That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.
Patti Smith
I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.
Patti Smith
Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
Patti Smith
Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'
Patti Smith
Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
Patti Smith
Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
Patti Smith
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
Patti Smith
Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
Patti Smith
When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
Patti Smith
