A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
PATTI SMITHI’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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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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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone’s vision, because in the end, that’s what you got: your clay in someone else’s hands.
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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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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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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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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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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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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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