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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'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.
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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
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Words are just rules and regulations to me.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
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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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I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their own merit, their good deeds, however simple, to not judge themselves by what they have materially, by what other people think of them, through social media.
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I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.
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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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Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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I always wear the same thing onstage.
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Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.
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What will happen to us? I asked. There will always be us, he answered.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
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