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 SMITHTo 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.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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 not really a nostalgic person.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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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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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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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’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’m from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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