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Never Quotes by Patti Smith
- Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
- I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
- An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
- 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.
- People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
- 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 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…
- 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…
- When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective…
- I never thought I was gonna live to 30.
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