For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open… — 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
The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always… — 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 wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things. — 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
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