Patti Smith Quotes About Drugs

Quotes about: Drugs

• ...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.

  Patti Smith

  Letting Go, Sadness, Garden

• Those were the things on my mind [stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people], not career, money, drugs, sex, alcohol or fun. Not that there's anything wrong with any of those things, but they aren't in the film [Dream of Life], because that wasn't my life at the time.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Sex, Fun

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs for construction. It's like one of my architectural tools.

  Patti Smith

  Drug, Tools, Use

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

• For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.

  Patti Smith

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

• People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.

  Patti Smith

  Baby, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.spin.com

• I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.

  Patti Smith

  Alcohol, Drug, Causes

• I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

  Patti Smith

  Drinking, Writing, Drug

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

• I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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