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Doing Quotes by Patti Smith
- 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…
- A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to,…
- I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
- 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…
- 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…
- Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it.…
- The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do…
- Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for…
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