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  • Patti Smith Quote - 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.
  • Patti Smith Quote - 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.
  • Patti Smith Quote - 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.
  • Patti Smith Quote - 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.
  • Patti Smith Quote - 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.
  • Patti Smith Quote - 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 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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

    Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn’t know who to work with.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.

    Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

    You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone’s vision, because in the end, that’s what you got: your clay in someone else’s hands.

    People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone’s vision, because in the end, that’s what you got: your clay in someone else’s hands.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - I felt alien my whole life but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one. Download This Image

    Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos – the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?

    In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos – the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?

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