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I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

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Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.
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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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Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.
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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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What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally it's great to look at - it's a package deal.
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I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
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When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: Away in the Manger, William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.
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Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
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Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
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No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
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I can't bear working with a click track, we're not click track people. But for Mercy Is ... we all got in one mind because the song is delicate it's not a song that showcases a vocal or some virtuoso.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.
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