Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
PATTI SMITHI’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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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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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 was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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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 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 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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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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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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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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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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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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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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