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If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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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The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
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A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
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I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.
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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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I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.
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I love being alive. I like being a human being.
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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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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.
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Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.
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Your soul was like a network of spittle.
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That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.
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I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.
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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 have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.
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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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Love is an angel disguised as lust.
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