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.
PATTI SMITHI’ve always considered myself a writer.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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I don’t know why, the very first word on my very first record is ‘Jesus.’ I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
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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 knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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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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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn’t know who to work with.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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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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