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
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 had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New generations are intoxicated with the idea that they can make their presence known on the Internet. When I was young, there… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I hadn't performed or been in the public eye for about 16 years. When my husband passed away, I was obliged to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity… — 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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