Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists,… — 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
Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening; he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond,… — 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 say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti. — 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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