Quote

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

Patti Smith

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Choices
Bows
Suffering
Guide
Help
Guides
Individual
Ultimately
Helping
Suffer
Others
Seeking
Reinforce
Journey
Journeys
Particular
Natures

More quotes by Patti Smith

Image
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
Image
Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
Patti Smith
Image
I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.
Patti Smith
Image
With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.
Patti Smith
Image
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.
Patti Smith
Image
Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.
Patti Smith
Image
My mother answers all my fan mail.
Patti Smith
Image
I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.
Patti Smith
Image
A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.
Patti Smith
Image
We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.
Patti Smith
Image
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
Patti Smith
Image
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
Patti Smith
Image
I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
Patti Smith
Image
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
Patti Smith
Image
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
Patti Smith
Image
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.
Patti Smith
Image
People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
Patti Smith
Image
When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
Patti Smith
Image
I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.
Patti Smith
Image
I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
Patti Smith