Patti Smith Quotes

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

  Patti Smith

  Topics in Inspirational

• Everybody’s got to reclaim these things – poetry, rock’n’roll, political activism – and it’s got to be done over and over again. It’s like eating: you can’t say, ‘Oh, I ate yesterday’. You have to eat again.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven’t published them. I just haven’t gotten around to it for several reasons.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Raising, Reasons

• What I wanted to do in rock ‘n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

  Patti Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contributed, Two

• Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there’s something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what’s on the minds of the people.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Historical, Unless

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, English

• I’ve always looked the same. 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sailor, Everyday

• I don’t think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I’m concerned about are at the top of other people’s agendas – not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Recession, Palestinian

• 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.

  Patti Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Else, Comfortable

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Aspect, Responsibility

• The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn’t an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feminist, Active

• I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it’s a good thing to have.

  Patti Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discipline, Rebelled

• We tried not to age, but Time had its rage.

  Patti Smith

  Topics in Age, Funny

• Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I’d always get a shiny new one the very next day.

  Patti Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Concert, Destroyed

• People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

  Patti Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Punk

• My mom loved rock ‘n roll. My father hated it. We couldn’t play it when he was around.

  Patti Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rock, Hated

• I’ve written a lot of prose. I just haven’t published it.

  Patti Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Published, Prose

• I’ve always believed in having a sense of balance and stealth.

  Patti Smith

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  Tags in Balance, Stealth

• I’m an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

  Patti Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intuitive, Technical

• I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.

  Patti Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Embrace, Communicate

Patti Smith (78)

Birth:	30th December, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Poet, Singer

About

Patti Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.

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