I’ve always considered myself a writer.
PATTI SMITHEven as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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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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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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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 had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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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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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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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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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 was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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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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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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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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