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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 - 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 - 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.

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

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram 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.

    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 - 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 - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

    Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.

    I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.

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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 - 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 - A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.

    A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Patti Smith Quote - I’m not really a nostalgic person.

    I’m not really a nostalgic person.

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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 - Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview) Download This Image

    Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)

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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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