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If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
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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I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.
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What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally it's great to look at - it's a package deal.
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One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.
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I'm not really a nostalgic person.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
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Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
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By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary, because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood.
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We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.
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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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Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.
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Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.
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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.
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My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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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