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Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your responsibility is back again to your people.
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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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
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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 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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I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
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I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
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I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.
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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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Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
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If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, Don't film me anymore, [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them he just respected their wishes.
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