All Patti Smith Quotes
- Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. Inspirational
- Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn… Added
- Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph. Concerned
- I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. Loneliness
- We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able… Able
- Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other.… All
- We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another. Distance
- Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. Awake
- Got to lose control before you take control. Control
- I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates ... Glass
- I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know. Contained
- Everything distracted me, but most of all myself. All
- I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ... Adolescent
- Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.' Perhaps it did,… Art
- We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he… Activity
- What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return.… Asleep
- We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free. Create
- He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and… All
- No one expected me. Everything awaited me. Awaited
- Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny. Everyone
- When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist. All
- I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular. Great
- Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should. Create
- I never thought I was gonna live to 30. Gonna
- I like gettin' old. Gettin