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A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Human Rights Activist
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.
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When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.
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I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
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I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
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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've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
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More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.
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I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.
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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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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
Patti Smith
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.
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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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One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.
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Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
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The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.
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I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
Patti Smith
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.
Patti Smith
After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.
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