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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
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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I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.
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I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
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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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We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.
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I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.
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A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth I liked flannel and not polyester.
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Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'
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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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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 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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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
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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'm not really a nostalgic person.
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Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
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I loved books I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
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My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.
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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.
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