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I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.
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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Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.
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In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in place, and you've gone even beyond the universe that you know.
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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
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I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.
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All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
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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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I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.
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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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People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.
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I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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You don't want to OD on improvisation.
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Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
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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 really a nostalgic person.
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I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.
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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
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