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The thing I’ve always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair (Patti Smith Quotes)
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had (Patti Smith Quotes)
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 (Patti Smith Quotes)
I was never a singer; I can’t play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern (Patti Smith Quotes)
It’s not that I have compromised or anything, but it’s always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I’m not much a role model in terms of hair care, though (Patti Smith Quotes)
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 (Patti Smith Quotes)
One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That’s my goal (Patti Smith Quotes)
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 (Patti Smith Quotes)
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 (Patti Smith Quotes)
Truthfully, I don’t really think of myself as a photographer. I don’t have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who’s spent their life devoted to photography (Patti Smith Quotes)
Well, I’m not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I’m performing, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m not, I don’t long for it. I don’t need the approval of an audience, or applause (Patti Smith Quotes)
Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I’ve always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art (Patti Smith Quotes)
Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph (Patti Smith Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know (Patti Smith Quotes)
What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged (Patti Smith Quotes)
We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth (Patti Smith Quotes)
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents (Patti Smith Quotes)
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings (Patti Smith Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up (Patti Smith Quotes)
I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes (Patti Smith Quotes)
Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through (Patti Smith Quotes)
The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new (Patti Smith Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn’t even give me the time of day (Patti Smith Quotes)
These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed (Patti Smith Quotes)
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed (Patti Smith Quotes)
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 (Patti Smith Quotes)
Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up (Patti Smith Quotes)