I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart,… — 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
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening; he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As much as I can, as much as I can afford, I keep ticket prices down. Rock 'n' roll was developed as… — 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
The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and… — 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 Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af3/patti-smith-394_aesthetic_i-think-that-there-is-an-air-of-experien_459029.jpg)
![“Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening; he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and what I gained was his supportive energy and the supportive energy of his wife, who was sometimes the one…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/773/patti-smith-394_energy_steven-s-sebring-presence-was-not-threat_2412604.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/quotes/img-quotes/788/patti-smith-394_ascent_i-was-at-one-of-the-lowest-points-of-my_2048809.jpg)
![“Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c73/patti-smith-394_cursing_sometimes-people-seem-to-think-i-came-ou_28268.jpg)
