Patti Smith Quotes

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Patti Smith Quotes

All Creative Angry Hopeful Love Spiritual 456 quotes · page 32 of 38

Musician

Creative

“I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.”

Writing Art Typewriters

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Patti Smith

Musician

Creative

“I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.”

Writing Trying Rocks

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Creative

“People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.”

People Purity

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Creative

“Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.”

Children Sometimes

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Hopeful

“For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.”

Hands Doe

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Inspired

“What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.”

Trying Views Common Sense

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Creative

“All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.”

Writing Art Love Is

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Creative

“I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably the other has to say something like, "Well I'm thinking he was shot in the neck with a certain gun and he seemed to be running." The solver has to picture what he's seeing first, and then express his own observations. The writer does the same.”

Thinking Running Gun

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Creative

“I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When I write I may be a Brando creep, or a girl laying on the floor, or a Japanese tourist, or a slob like Richard Speck. You have to be a chameleon when you're writing.”

Men Writing Girl

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Angry

“I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.”

Believe Real Reading

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Confident

“I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.”

People Thinking Waste

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Angry

“It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.”

Secret Watches Fiction

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