I’ve always considered myself a writer.
PATTI SMITHI was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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 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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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.
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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.
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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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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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I started resenting how much art robs from life. I’d go to a party and I couldn’t enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.
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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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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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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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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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