I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people. — 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
I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule. — 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 don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm estranged from social media and I don't really deal with it. I tried to work on a website and it took… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Those were the things on my mind [stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people], not… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for… — 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'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 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
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
The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I… — 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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