A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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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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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Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
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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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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
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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’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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