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We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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.
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You don't want to OD on improvisation.
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Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
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I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on. It was a trauma.
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I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.
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When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
Patti Smith
I always know that everything I do is the best I could do.
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I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
Patti Smith
More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.
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Words are just rules and regulations to me.
Patti Smith
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection
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A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.
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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
Patti Smith
I'm a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, 'cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I'll still be there at six in the evening.
Patti Smith
Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
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I always wear the same thing onstage.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.
Patti Smith
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.
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