Patti SmithAmericans just don't know what being a movie star's all about. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.361Philosophy
Patti SmithEyeing 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… ▶362Reading
Patti SmithFinally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed. ✨ Patti Smith (2010). Just Kids, p.278, A&C Black351Philosophy
Patti SmithWhat I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so p… ▶351HumanityLoveReading
Patti SmithWe 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 c… ▶352LoveTimeTruth
Patti SmithRemember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.352Death
Patti SmithMake your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. ✨ Army Layoffs Mean 40K to Soon Join Civilian Ranks by Colonel David W. Sutherland, www.huffingt… ▶374Humanity
Patti SmithI'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 f… ▶341LifeTime
Patti SmithI want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible. ✨ 'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'. Interview wi… ▶363Time
Patti SmithWe wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free. ✨ Patti Smith (2010). Just Kids, p.81, A&C Black364LoveReading
Patti SmithSometimes 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 p… ▶375LifeTime
Patti SmithI have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were o… ▶364HumanityHumorThought
Patti SmithPolaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world. ✨ A Minute With: Patti Smit… ▶375Politics
Patti SmithYou don't want to OD on improvisation.343Sadness
Patti SmithThe 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 mater… ▶343Love
Patti SmithI learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, s… ▶354Humanity
Patti SmithI'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.343Humanity
Patti SmithNever let go of that fiery sadness called desire.365Sadness
Patti SmithI have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates. ✨ Patti Smith (2010). Just Kids, p.3, A&C Black311Death
Patti SmithMusic television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, s… ▶377Politics
Patti SmithBesides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.344Reflection
Patti SmithMy sunglasses are like my guitar.344Reading
Patti SmithI wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town. ✨ Patti Smith interview: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'. Interview with Jeff Bak… ▶311LoveReading
Patti SmithI'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.311Politics
Patti SmithPoetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine perf… ▶344Humanity
Patti SmithA writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.312Humanity
Patti SmithIn 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like… ▶301DeathHumanity
Patti SmithMy father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. ✨ Patti Smith on Art. Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.pbs.org. December 30, 2009.… ▶367Reading
Patti SmithI always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.356Life
Patti SmithWhat I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you,… ▶356HumanityPoliticsSadness
