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A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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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So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.
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When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.
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My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
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I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.
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People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
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I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
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I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.
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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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My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.
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Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.
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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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I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.
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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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Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.
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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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