Patti Smith Quotes
An American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist.
(1946 - )
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
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Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
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I never thought I was gonna live to 30.
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I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
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