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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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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Visual Artist
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Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
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I wanted to remember the original energy strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.
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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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If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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I love being alive. I like being a human being.
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The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.
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Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.
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Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.
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People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.
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My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.
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Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.
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We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.
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I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female I'm an artist.
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Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.
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My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.
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