Book Quote by Patti Smith Download Open image “I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...” — Patti Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Rock n roll Rocks Salvation
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what]… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni… — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard.… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I… — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
I was a very quiet kid who didn't feel normal being outgoing and running around, so all the beauty that was in my life,… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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