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'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. — 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 get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world. — 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 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
These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes. — 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
My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There is hardly a place in New York that you can't walk a block and a half and get a cup of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than… — 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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