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.
PATTI SMITHI’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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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 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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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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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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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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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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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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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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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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