I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
PATTI SMITHI’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.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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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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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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 knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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To 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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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