Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was my generation's revolutionary, sexual, poetic, and political voice, but it had become corporatized. It was going into stadiums. It was so far removed from its basic roots.

Patti Smith's Popular Quotes

I always wear the same thing onstage.

- Patti Smith

I've always considered myself a writer.

- Patti Smith

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

- Patti Smith

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

- Patti Smith

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

- Patti Smith

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

- Patti Smith

Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, you…

- Patti Smith

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

- Patti Smith

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

- Patti Smith