Patti Smith Quotes - Page 10

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• I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, People, Healthy

  Source: the-talks.com

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

  Patti Smith

  Song, Want, Labels

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• I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public. I don't feel it's my place to judge. I just look at things as a fan, I like or or I don't like it.

  Patti Smith

  Judging, Choices, Fans

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• 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

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• I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

  Patti Smith

  Library, Jersey, Culture

  "Patti Smith on Art". Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.pbs.org.

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

  Patti Smith

  Prose, Written, Havens

  "Patti Smith interview: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 26, 2010.

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• I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

  Patti Smith

  Real, Guitar, Play

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• Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of statement, consciously or unconsciously, we shouldn't take the innocence away from what we do.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Innocence, Kind

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm not really a nostalgic person.

  Patti Smith

  Nostalgic, Persons

  "A Minute With: Patti Smith on her photography show". Interview with Julie Mollins, www.reuters.com. January 16, 2013.

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• I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, People, Imagination

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)

  Patti Smith

  Color, Soul, Vowels

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• I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Parent, Four

  "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.

  Patti Smith

  Real, School, White

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Editors, Directors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Loss, Men

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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• It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

  Patti Smith

  Reading, Writing, Long

  "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.

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• I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Thinking, Life Is

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• I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Joy, Sorrow

  "'Just Kids': Punk Icon Patti Smith Looks Back". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 19, 2010.

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• My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

  Patti Smith

  Important, Public Life

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

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• You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Four, Rock N Roll

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Father, People

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

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• I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Book, Want

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• As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

  Patti Smith

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

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• He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)

  Patti Smith

  Easy, Found

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