Patti Smith Quotes - Page 16

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• When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.

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  Song, Teenager, Holiday

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

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

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  Easy, Found

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• I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.

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  People, Suffering, Helping

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• I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

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  Love, Dream, Heaven

  Song: Farewell Reel, Album: Gone Again

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• 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.

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  Artist, Thinking, Calling

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• I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

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  Book, Want, Catalogues

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

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• From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

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  Thinking, Race, Years

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• I’m not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

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  Hair, Role Models, Roles

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• I realize that people need something to believe in.

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  Believe, People, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.

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  Children, Simplicity, Lullaby

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

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  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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• My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.

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  People, Giving, Energy

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

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• I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.

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  Reading, People, Style

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

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• Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

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  Children, Kids, Hair

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• I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

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  Different, Way, Feels

  Source: www.spin.com

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• When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

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  Kids, Artist, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.

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  Art, Artist, Made

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I started going to Bible school really early in life. Being raised a Jehovah's Witness, I had to read the Bible over and over. These stories were so horrifying and really difficult to reconcile. For me, Noah wasn't the story of the graham cracker box with the little animals it was horrifying. I would ask the same questions as a child. "Well, what about the little kids? What about the dogs and cats?"

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  Dog, Children, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I actually had another motivation for letting Steven [Sebring] film us. After I'd been out of the public eye for 16 years, lost my friends and lost my husband, some of my confidence had been undermined. Steven made the process of filming fun; I could pretend that we were in something like Don't Look Back.

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  Fun, Motivation, Husband

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

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  Children, Spoil, Spares

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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.

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  Mother, Book, Want

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• My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

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  Beautiful, Mother, Father

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

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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.

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  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

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• My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

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  Style, Ginsberg, Beatnik

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

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• Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

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  Art, Rooms, Produce

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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