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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.

Patti Smith

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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Around Dawn Roaming World
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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Believe Hand Mind
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.
PATTI SMITH

Political Rock Yesterday
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.
PATTI SMITH

First Jesus Record
You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
PATTI SMITH

Good Scales Trust Zipper
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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Art Period Point Talk Zoos
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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Color Soul Vowel
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Fire Love Romantic
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
PATTI SMITH

Mortals Poetry Remember
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
PATTI SMITH

Pocket Two World
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.
PATTI SMITH

Couple Father Loss
Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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Children Lipstick Need Red
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
PATTI SMITH

Fun Go Inspirational Letting
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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Eye Light Recognition Sleep
A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
PATTI SMITH

Artist Hand Zipper
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
PATTI SMITH

Children Nice Night

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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