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
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
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
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
Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist,… — 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
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
Steven [Sebring] was documenting me as a widow with two children, going from 50 to 60 years old. My focus, during that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in… — 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 have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the… — 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
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
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
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
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
I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love… — 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
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's… — 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… — 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
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together,… — 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
What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was… — 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
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
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 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
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share
“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
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share
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
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
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
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share
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
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
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the… — Patti Smith Copy Share
I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble… — Patti Smith Copy Share
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