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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
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What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
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To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
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Grief isn't all tears.
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I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
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If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.
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You don't want to OD on improvisation.
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
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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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Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.
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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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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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I realize that people need something to believe in.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'
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No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
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Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.
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Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
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I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.
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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
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New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.
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