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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
Visual Artist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
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I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.
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When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
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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 never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female I'm an artist.
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It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
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As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
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No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
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Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
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Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
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I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.
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Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
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