Patti Smith Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• 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 it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...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

  Sorry, Regret, Artist

• 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

  Rocks, People, Wake Up

• Lets 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

  Artist, Thinking, Calling

• I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Children, Real

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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