Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
PATTI SMITHI felt alien my whole life but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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 had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Everybody’s got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock’n’roll, political activismand it’s got to be done over and over again. It’s like eating: you can’t say,’Oh, I ate yesterday’.You have to eat again.
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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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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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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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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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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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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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