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"50 Patti Smith Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 30 December 1946 | Musician | Author | Poet |

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Abandon Art Balance Dream
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

About American Being Just
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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

Artist Competition God Somebody
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Artist Artists Burdens Citizen
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Artists Labels Resistant
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Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Artist Besides Me Movie
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

Christianity Heaven Made Think
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

BeAMan Everyone God Help
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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

Anybody First FirstOfAll Lasted
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

Broke England Horses Much
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

Always Doing Enjoyed Songs
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

Always Childhood Financial Great
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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

Become Daughter Grow GrowUp
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I never thought I was gonna live to 30.

Gonna Live Never Thought
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I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Adjustment Constantly IThink State
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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

Always Encouragement Others Thrive
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Any Better BetterWriter Could
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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

Calling Fact InFact Painter
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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Bowls Changed Children Citizen
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Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

Any Artist Calling Duty
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

Die Gutter Maybe Paris
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Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
Got He Heavens Know
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My mother answers all my fan mail.

Answers Fan FanMail Mail
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My sunglasses are like my guitar.

Guitar Like Sunglasses
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No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Artist Does Fact Feel
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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

After Drawings Getting Handwriting
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Artists Coming Communication Engaged
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Being Course Girl Like
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Asleep Duty Felt People
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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

Brand Dream Rock Rock-N-Roll
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Fools People Power Redeem
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Desire Fiery Go LetGo
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As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
Any AsFarAs Being Concerned
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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Extend Hand Suffered Suffering
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Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

Died Jesus Mine Sins
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I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
Book Could Dreamed Having
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

Child Ever Since Something
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I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

AGoodThing Against Discipline Energies
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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

Could Craft Day Developing
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I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

Because Book Go Good
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

Just Lot Prose Published
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

About Around Books Children
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A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

About Aesthetic Children Choices
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

Beautiful China Cup Drink
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The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

Active Because Biggest Concern
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

Away Books Childhood Interested
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I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

AllPeople Area Belongs Christians
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Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

First FirstThing FirstTime Go
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My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Around Father Hated He
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

Basic Because Came Chords
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