Quotes by Patti Smith

About Patti Smith:

Patricia Lee is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

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If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

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I'm not really a nostalgic person.

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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

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Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.

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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

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Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

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My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

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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 something beautiful about that.

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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, , November 17, 2010)

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Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.

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A real prison breakfast" I said. "Yeah, but we are free." And that summed it up.

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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

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I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.

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I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

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Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

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Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience som...

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Author Bio

  • NamePatti Smith
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist
  • BornDecember 30, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Poet; Visual Artist; Human Rights Activist; Writer
  • AwardsCommandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; National Book Award