Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender? — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago.… — 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
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine:… — 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
I actually had another motivation for letting Steven [Sebring] film us. After I'd been out of the public eye for 16 years,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We all make choices. Believe me, I would like to write the hit of the world. It's not like I have any… — 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
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
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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![“Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4aa/patti-smith-394_done_look-at-obama-he-is-now-2015-trying-to-h_1287194.jpg)
![“I actually had another motivation for letting Steven [Sebring] film us. After I'd been out of the public eye for 16 years, lost my friends and lost my husband, some of my confidence had been undermined. Steven made the process of filming fun; I could pretend that we were in something like Don't…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f1a/patti-smith-394_cinema_i-actually-had-another-motivation-for-le_892365.jpg)
![“I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/455/patti-smith-394_appeals_i-can-t-judge-how-another-person-does-th_1650149.jpg)
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