People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti. — 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
The best thing is to motivate people to do their own work. I'm not opposed to making money. But I started to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. — 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