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I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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.
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I wanted to remember the original energy strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.
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We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he affectionately squeezed my hand. oh, take their picture, said the woman to her bemused husband, I think they're artists. Oh, go on, he shrugged. They're just kids.
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I loved books I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
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My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.
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I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.
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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.
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I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
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Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
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The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.
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My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.
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I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.
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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
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