Thinking Quotes by Patti Smith

I don't think anything can prepare you for one's losses.

— Patti Smith

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

— Patti Smith

I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.

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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.

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I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

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I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going…

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I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.

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I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

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Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

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I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger…

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If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing…

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Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in…

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Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'…

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What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and…

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For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a…

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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…

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I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All…

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As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the…

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“Half-empty paper coffee cups. Half-eaten deli sandwiches. An encrusted soup bowl. Here is joy and neglect. A little mescal. A little jacking…

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I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone…

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From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt…

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I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't…

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We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being…

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I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in…

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I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and…

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I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course,…

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I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably…

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It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film…

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I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

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The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty…

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I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a…

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I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

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I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and…

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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to…

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I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.

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I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

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I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

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I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their…

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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