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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
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.
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I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
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As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
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When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very dangerous territory. I also have come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.
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I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.
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I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I can go on the road and perform. But the most important thing for me is writing, and when I hit those walls, it's painful.
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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.
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If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!
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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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People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.
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A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.
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Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.
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I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
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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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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.
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I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
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