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Patti Smith
American
Musician
About the author
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Hollywood
#Artists
#Communication
My sunglasses are like my guitar.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Guitar
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Life
#Children
Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Sense
#Duty
#Artist
Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Paris
Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
My mother answers all my fan mail.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Mother
#Answers
#Mail
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 asleep.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#People
#Thought
#Poetry
#Duty
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#First
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Desire
#Sadness
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Work
#Freedom
#Fact
#Artist
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#People
#Work
#Power
#Fools
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Time
#Writing
#Language
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Thought
#Fact
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Being
#Writer
#Women
#Girls
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Suffering
Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Dream
Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Pretty
#England
#Horses
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Life
#Art
#May
#Balance
#Dream
I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Songs
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#God
#Artist
#Competition
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#May
#Artists
#Artist
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Artists
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Being
#Gender
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Artist
Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#God
#Man
#Help
#Santa claus
Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Being
#Americans
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Mother
#Childhood
#Financial
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Life
#Years
#Daughter
#Play
#Old
I like gettin' old.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Old
I never thought I was gonna live to 30.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Thought
I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#State
I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Encouragement
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Writer
Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
Patti Smith,
American
Musician
#Christianity
#Heaven