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When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.
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Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
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I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.
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Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.
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New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.
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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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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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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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My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.
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I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.
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I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
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Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
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I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.
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We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you want to answer in five minutes. We have to allow ourselves nothingness, in our relationships too.
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I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, Where's my car?
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Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.
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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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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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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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