Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to… — 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
I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out… — 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
I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get… — 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
Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a… — 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
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
I'm estranged from social media and I don't really deal with it. I tried to work on a website and it took… — 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
I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to… — 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
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
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 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
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share
“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
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share
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
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
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
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share
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
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
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the… — Patti Smith Copy Share
I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble… — Patti Smith Copy Share
![“Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening; he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and what I gained was his supportive energy and the supportive energy of his wife, who was sometimes the one…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/773/patti-smith-394_energy_steven-s-sebring-presence-was-not-threat_2412604.jpg)
