Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.'… — 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
After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We all make choices. Believe me, I would like to write the hit of the world. It's not like I have any… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave! — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe) — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you… — 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
I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ms. It sounds like a sick bumblebee, it sounds frigid. I mean, who the hell would ever want to stick his hand… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm more concerned with the work people do than their gender. When I was younger, I was pretty judgmental. Things had to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the… — 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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