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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Human Rights Activist
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.
Patti Smith
I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.
Patti Smith
When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
Patti Smith
I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
Patti Smith
I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
Patti Smith
The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.
Patti Smith
Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
Patti Smith
I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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
I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, Where's my car?
Patti Smith
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
Patti Smith
I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
Patti Smith
People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
Patti Smith
I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.
Patti Smith
I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
Patti Smith
I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.
Patti Smith
I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.
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
I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.
Patti Smith
The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.
Patti Smith
