Patti Smith Quotes

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• Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

  Patti Smith

  People, Interaction

  "Army Layoffs Mean 40K to Soon Join Civilian Ranks" by Colonel David W. Sutherland, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2015.

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• I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.

  Patti Smith

  Cards, Time On Earth, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Responsibility, Exercise

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• You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

  Patti Smith

  Mistake, Drumming, Improvisation

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.185, A&C Black

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• Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

  Patti Smith

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Fun

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• If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

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  Rocks, Needs, Ifs

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• We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

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  Skins, Shed

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• Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.

  Patti Smith

  Heart, Phones, Cells

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• To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

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  Artist, What Matters, Want

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• Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

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  Adventure, Fate, Design

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• For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.

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  Children, Believe, Sea

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

  Patti Smith

  Freedom, Writing, Wrong Words

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• I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Phones, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.

  Patti Smith

  Flames, Feelings, Alive

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• Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

  Patti Smith

  Successful, Names, Perfect

  "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Interview with Christian Lund, the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, August 24, 2012.

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• Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

  Patti Smith

  Future, Dark, Arrows

  Song: Upright Come, Album: Gung Ho, 2000

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• As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

  Patti Smith

  Sex, Gender, Drag

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• People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

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  People, Fool

  Song: People Have the Power

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• Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

  Patti Smith

  Grief, Grieving, Hands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

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  People, Grace, Fool

  Song: People Have The Power

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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.

  Patti Smith

  Beautiful, Book, Acceptance

  "National Book Award for Patti Smith". National Book Award Acceptance speech, www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2010.

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• I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

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  Flower, Greatness, Age

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• We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.

  Patti Smith

  Needs, Drink, Cosmology

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• Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

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  World, Lines, Neat

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• In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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  Dream, Art, Reality

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