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Rock Quotes by Patti Smith
- 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…
- To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's…
- I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.
- Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to…
- Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First…
- We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared…
- I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...
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