Patti Smith Quotes - Page 2

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• To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

  Patti Smith

  Successful, Rocks, Be Who You Are

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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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• I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it.

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  Children, Smart, School

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

  Patti Smith

  World, Lines, Neat

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• People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything.

  Patti Smith

  Air, Space, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.

  Patti Smith

  Happens

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.145, A&C Black

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• The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

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  Communication, Responsibility, Artist

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• No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

  Patti Smith

  Expected

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.25, A&C Black

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• I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

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  Beautiful, Book, World

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• Love is an angel disguised as lust.

  Patti Smith

  Love, Angel, Lust

  Song: Because The Night, Album: Easter

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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.

  Patti Smith

  People, Grace, Fool

  Song: People Have The Power

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• Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

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  Time, Doe, Answers

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.79, A&C Black

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• When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

  Patti Smith

  Teenager, My Boyfriend, Bob

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

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• I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, States, Adjustment

  "The Wisdom of Patti Smith" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. December 30, 2013.

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• Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.

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  Brother, Future, Heart

  Song: Upright Come, Album: Gung Ho, 2000

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• Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

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  Grief, People, Giving

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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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• Paths that cross will cross again

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  Path, Crosses

  Song: Paths That Cross, Album: Dream of Life

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• The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.

  Patti Smith

  Fashion, Artist, Cities

  Source: the-talks.com

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• You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

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  Pie, World

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• ...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.

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  Cameras, My Friends

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• New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

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  New York, Struggle, Taken

  "Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. May 4, 2010.

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• Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

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  Rivers, Egotism

  Song: Pissing in a River, Album: Radio Ethiopia

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• Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

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  Dream, Rocks, Soup

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• Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

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  House Of Cards, Years, Three

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

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