Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“For a time Robert protected me, then was dependent on me, and then possessive of me. His transformation was the rose of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Well I haven't fucked much with the past, But I've fucked plenty with the future. - Babelogue ” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm estranged from social media and I don't really deal with it. I tried to work on a website and it took… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Actually, the only time I ever tried to cultivate being sexy was when I read Peyton Place. I was about sixteen and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then… — 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
Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“For a time we considered buying an abandoned lighthouse or a shrimp trawler. But when I found I was pregnant we headed… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Steven [Sebring] was documenting me as a widow with two children, going from 50 to 60 years old. My focus, during that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what… — 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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