Patti Smith Quotes - Page 7

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• I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't so politically motivated. I felt that the world from an early age was disappointing. My father taught me about the bomb, and it was eye-opening. From then on, I thought grown-ups needed to do a better job. I still think that.

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  Jobs, Father, Eye

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Rock N Roll

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was my generation's revolutionary, sexual, poetic, and political voice, but it had become corporatized. It was going into stadiums. It was so far removed from its basic roots.

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  Moving, Rocks, Voice

  Source: www.spin.com

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• Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

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  Writing, Quiet, Closets

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• I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.

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  Mom, Stars, Artist

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

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  Rocks, Political, Revolution

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

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  Rocks, Done, Painting

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• When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.

  Patti Smith

  Mistake, Simple, Feet

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• I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Nice, Night

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

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• I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.

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  Believe, Unique, Journey

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• I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something as fleeting as fame and fortune. If you're presenting yourself in a way that important to you in communicating your vision, then so be it. No one should allow themselves to be exploited ever.

  Patti Smith

  Choices, Vision, Important

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Artist, Paris

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• Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

  Patti Smith

  Find Me, Ifs

  Song: Rock 'N' Roll Nigger

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• Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

  Patti Smith

  Song, Writing, Hardest

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• I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.

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  Philosophy, Believe, People

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• The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Done, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view grainy and immobile. We gathered our colored pencils and sheets of paper and drew like wild, feral children into the night, until, exhausted, we fell into bed. We lay in each other's arms, still awkward but happy, exchanging breathless kisses into sleep.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Sleep, Kissing

  "Just Kids". Book by Patti Smith, January 19, 2010.

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• As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

  Patti Smith

  Allies, My Sister, Grew Up

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• I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in science; and Michelangelo was dabbling in poetry. Both of them were painters and sculptors but they also involved themselves with architecture. I honestly don't know what happened in the '60s and '70s. If you sang rock and roll in America at that time or were involved in expressing yourself through music like that, then many thought you couldn't possibly be an artist. That thinking is archaic.

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  Artist, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

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  Photography, Thinking, Discipline

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

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• Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Labels

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• One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

  Patti Smith

  People, Goal, Want

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• You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

  Patti Smith

  Scales, Without Trust

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)

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  Want, Hiding

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• A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Hands, Zippers

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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