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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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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If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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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 photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.
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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.
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I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.
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