Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
PATTI SMITHWell, 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.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
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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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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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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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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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I think it’s important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
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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 felt alien my whole life but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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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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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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I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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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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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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