The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
PATTI SMITHI 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.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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 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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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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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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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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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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I’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.
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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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I felt alien my whole life but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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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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Well, 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.
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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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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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