Patti Smith Quotes

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• Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?
• I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
• You don't want to OD on improvisation.
• 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 younger, I felt…
• Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When…
• Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.
• You can't make a mistake when you improvise.
• New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken…
• Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an…
• Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about…
• Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.
• Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
• Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
• We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was…
• To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what…
• Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
• Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
• I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.
• I’m not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.
• We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

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