Patti Smith Quotes

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith

Sadness, Desire, Fiery

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
Patti Smith

Good, Sacrifice, Difficult

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
Patti Smith

Understand, Suffering, Hand

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
Patti Smith

State, Adjustment, Constantly

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
Patti Smith

Far, Concerned, Gender

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
Patti Smith

Life, Live, Children

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.
Patti Smith

Jesus, Somebody, Died

My mother answers all my fan mail.
Patti Smith

Mother, Answers, Fan

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Wonderful, Wanted, Child

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
Patti Smith

Good, Hope, Positive

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
Patti Smith

Freedom, Rock, Successful

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
Patti Smith

Positive, Sometimes, Insight

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
Patti Smith

God, Artist, Somebody

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
Patti Smith

May, Artist, Touch

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
Patti Smith

Artists, Labels, Resistant

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
Patti Smith

God, Help, Everyone

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
Patti Smith

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.
Patti Smith

State, Jewish, Muslims

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
Patti Smith

Book, Writing, Put

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.
Patti Smith

Time, Long, Everything

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
Patti Smith

Music, Business, Saying

My sunglasses are like my guitar.
Patti Smith

Guitar, Sunglasses

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
Patti Smith

Work, Good, Concerned

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
Patti Smith

Life, Children, Made

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Nationality: American

Born: December 20, 1946

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