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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.
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People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.
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I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.
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I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.
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I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.
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I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
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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.
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Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
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When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.
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We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.
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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.
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I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.
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I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
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Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.
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I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.
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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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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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