What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and 150,000 people were killed in one night. Those people had to mourn and they had to rebuild their city right away.
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.
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.
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. - Patti Smith
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
You can't make a mistake when you improvise. - Patti Smith
You can't make a mistake when you improvise.
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…
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!
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. - Patti Smith
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
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