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.
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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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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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 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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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as 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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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
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