Love Quotes by Patti Smith

Love is an angel disguised as lust.

— Patti Smith

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

— Patti Smith

Grief isn't all tears.

— Patti Smith

Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?

— Patti Smith

Words are just rules and regulations to me.

— Patti Smith

One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.

— Patti Smith

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

— Patti Smith

I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

— Patti Smith

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

— Patti Smith

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

— Patti Smith

“When does it cease to be something beautiful, a faithful aspect of the heart, to become off-center, slightly off the axis, and…

— Patti Smith

People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the…

— Patti Smith

The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting,…

— Patti Smith

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and…

— Patti Smith

New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that…

— Patti Smith

I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged…

— Patti Smith

I never had any dates. I never really had any boyfriends. I was the girl who did the guys' homework. I was…

— Patti Smith

In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser…

— Patti Smith

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses…

— Patti Smith

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to…

— Patti Smith

For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should…

— Patti Smith

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what…

— Patti Smith

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