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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 wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
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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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We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you want to answer in five minutes. We have to allow ourselves nothingness, in our relationships too.
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Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.
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I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I can go on the road and perform. But the most important thing for me is writing, and when I hit those walls, it's painful.
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Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
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Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
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Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.
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I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
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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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People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
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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
We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he affectionately squeezed my hand. oh, take their picture, said the woman to her bemused husband, I think they're artists. Oh, go on, he shrugged. They're just kids.
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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.
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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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I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.
Patti Smith
I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.
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