I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo -… — 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
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve.… — 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
I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,… — 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 I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“...slowly I discerned a familiar shift in my concentration. That compulsion that prohibits me from completely surrendering to a work of art,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Why can’t I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. I got over the loss… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Now, I can tell you about some women writers who truly are fantastic. One is Anna Kavan. She writes stories like I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I've done records where it seemed like no one… — 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
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
Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like. — 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
I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because… — 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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