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.
I always wear the same thing onstage. - Patti Smith
I always wear the same thing onstage.
- Patti Smith
I've always considered myself a writer. - Patti Smith
I've always considered myself a writer.
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves. - Patti Smith
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.
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
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…
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. - Patti Smith
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got! - Patti Smith
If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!
You can't make a mistake when you improvise. - Patti Smith
You can't make a mistake when you improvise.
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. - Patti Smith
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me. - Patti Smith
The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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