I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
PATTI SMITHI knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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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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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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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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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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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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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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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