I’ve lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
PATTI SMITHI’m not really a nostalgic person.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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To be an artist – actually, to be a human being in these times – it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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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 had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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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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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn’t know who to work with.
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In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos – the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
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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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I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
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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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Well, I’m not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I’m performing, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m not, I don’t long for it. I don’t need the approval of an audience, or applause.
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