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Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Human Rights Activist
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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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I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
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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.
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People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything.
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I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.
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I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
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It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
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