Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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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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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’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn’t know who to work with.
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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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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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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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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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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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