Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
PATTI SMITHI refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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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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I was never a singer, I can’t play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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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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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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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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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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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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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 knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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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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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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