I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.
PATTI SMITHThe film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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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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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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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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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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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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I’ve lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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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