Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
Patti Smith
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Visual Artist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
Expected
Everything
Awaited
More quotes by Patti Smith
Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
Patti Smith
Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
Patti Smith
Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
Patti Smith
My sunglasses are like my guitar.
Patti Smith
I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
Patti Smith
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.
Patti Smith
Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?
Patti Smith
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.
Patti Smith
Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
Patti Smith
It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
Patti Smith
If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, Don't film me anymore, [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them he just respected their wishes.
Patti Smith
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
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.
Patti Smith
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
I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.
Patti Smith
All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
Patti Smith
I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.
Patti Smith
The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.
Patti Smith
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.
Patti Smith
What will happen to us? I asked. There will always be us, he answered.
Patti Smith
