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I love being alive. I like being a human being.

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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To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
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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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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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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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I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
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Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
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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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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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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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Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
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I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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Love is an angel disguised as lust.
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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
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Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
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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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I can't bear working with a click track, we're not click track people. But for Mercy Is ... we all got in one mind because the song is delicate it's not a song that showcases a vocal or some virtuoso.
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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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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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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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