[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work… — 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
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
When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or… — 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
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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