Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
PATTI SMITHI’ve always considered myself a writer.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
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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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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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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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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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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 was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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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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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
PATTI SMITH