You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
PATTI SMITHI’m not really a nostalgic person.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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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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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
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I don’t know why, the very first word on my very first record is ‘Jesus.’ I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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