Best Patti Smith Lines
- When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was… Asleep
- You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie. Carve
- What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people… Insight
- From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with… Alien
- The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't… Active
- For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot… Blank
- Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other… Always Creating
- I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and… Admired
- I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are… Amount
- I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas -… Across
- I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play… Daughter
- I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough… Beautiful
- I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the… Able
- I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the… All
- I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than… Bee
- In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and… Became
- It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the… All
- It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good… Been
- More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other… Been
- Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi… All
- My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's… Beautiful
- My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and… Downs
- My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with… All
- My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and… Both
- Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they… Any
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