Patti Smith Quotes

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Patti Smith Quotes

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Spiritual

“We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you want to answer in five minutes. We have to allow ourselves nothingness, in our relationships too.”

Culture Answers Email

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Love

“I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew a photographer who would come to Detroit, where I lived, who would be child friendly and who would respect my home. Michael suggested Steven [ Sebring]. One day a knock came at my door, and when I opened it, there was Steven. He's been like a brother ever since.”

Children Home Brother

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Angry

“When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.”

People Upset Controversial

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Funny

“Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.”

Horse Beauty

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Courageous

“First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.”

Firsts Survivor

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Grieving

“With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.”

Lost Photograph Collaborators

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Love

“I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.”

People Dresses Window

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Rebellious

“If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!”

Want Song Labels

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Creative

“Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of statement, consciously or unconsciously, we shouldn't take the innocence away from what we do.”

Artist Kind Innocence

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Determined

“I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.”

Thinking Careers Design

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Grateful

“I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.”

Years Littles Records

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Creative

“I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.”

People Writing Imagination

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