The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
PATTI SMITHWell, 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.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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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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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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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I’m from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
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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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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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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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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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