Patti Smith Quotes — Page 33

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Musician

Grateful

“My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.”

Beautiful Mother Father

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Patti Smith

Musician

Creative

“Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.”

Art Rooms Produce

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Creative

“I wish I could just project everything on the paper.”

Wish Paper

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Calm

“Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.”

Sea

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Creative

“I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.”

Gone Painting Paris

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Nostalgic

“Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.”

Long Enough

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Calm

“I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.”

People Certain

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Hopeful

“I realize that people need something to believe in.”

People Believe

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Inspired

“I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.”

People Thinking Self

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Wise

“I'm more concerned with the work people do than their gender. When I was younger, I was pretty judgmental. Things had to be a certain way. Now I just want to see the work. It doesn't matter who does it.”

People Want Doe

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Spiritual

“When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very dangerous territory. I also have come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.”

Fall Communication Territory

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Hopeful

“The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.”

People Sacrifice Betrayal

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