Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — 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
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a… — 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
Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film… — 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
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
It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film… — 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 think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey.… — 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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