Patti Smith Quotes - Page 18

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• We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Said, Our Children

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.274, A&C Black

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• It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

  Patti Smith

  Band, Psychedelic, Arabian

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• I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Hands, Mind

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• Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

  Patti Smith

  Long, Enough

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.130, A&C Black

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• We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.

  Patti Smith

  Giving, Perspective, Want

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.80, A&C Black

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• I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.

  Patti Smith

  Whole, Knows, Universe

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.49, A&C Black

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• You don't want to OD on improvisation.

  Patti Smith

  Crafts, Want, Improvisation

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• Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke-down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if not in the outside world.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Children, Guitar

  "Just Kids". Book by Patti Smith, www.cbc.ca. January 4, 2011.

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• I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act.
  I consider it a real physical act.
  When I'm home writing on the typewriter, I go crazy.
  I move like a monkey.
  I've wet myself, I've come in my pants writing.

  Patti Smith

  Crazy, Real, Moving

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• Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

  Patti Smith

  Growing Up, Hands, Sometimes

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.104, A&C Black

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• I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.

  Patti Smith

  Baby, Giving, Rejection

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• The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.

  Patti Smith

  Betrayal, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, People, Records

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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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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• Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry.

  Patti Smith

  Beautiful, Book, Mean

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.

  Patti Smith

  Prayer, Teenager, Home

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.

  Patti Smith

  Real, Horny, Causes

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.

  Patti Smith

  People, Atmosphere, Certain

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

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• I always wear the same thing onstage.

  Patti Smith

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

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• I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

  Patti Smith

  Hate, Doors, House

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

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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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• New York is the thing that seduced me.

  Patti Smith

  New York

  "Patti Smith: Dream of Life". Indie film/Biography, 2008.

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• My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

  Patti Smith

  Father, Real, Rocks

  "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 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 father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.

  Patti Smith

  Couple, Father, Loss

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

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