I was like one of the boys in school who flap their legs frantically under the desk. I always had this weird… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get… — 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'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New generations are intoxicated with the idea that they can make their presence known on the Internet. When I was young, there… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone… — 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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