Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Half-empty paper coffee cups. Half-eaten deli sandwiches. An encrusted soup bowl. Here is joy and neglect. A little mescal. A little jacking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the… — Patti Smith Copy Share
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… — Patti Smith Copy Share
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![“I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/762/patti-smith-394_corporate_i-think-it-s-really-great-that-people-sh_2866464.jpg)
![“It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film [Dream of Life] is very humanistic: It touches on motherhood, death, birth, art, laundry, anger against the Bush administration... While I don't think it's the kind of film where…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/267/patti-smith-394_administration_it-s-steven-s-sebring-view-of-what-he-sa_634203.jpg)
![“I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course, that I had two great children. But the film is not documenting a decline; it's documenting a rise up - first baby steps and then big steps up. The worst that could have ever happened to me…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/788/patti-smith-394_ascent_i-was-at-one-of-the-lowest-points-of-my_2048809.jpg)
