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A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

Patti Smith

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Visual Artist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
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I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.
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Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.
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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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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Grief isn't all tears.
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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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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
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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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Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
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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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We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.
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I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.
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I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.
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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
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Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
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