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Patti Smith is an American singer, songwriter, poet, and visual artist known as the "punk poet laureate." Her fusion of rock and poetry greatly influenced the punk rock movement of the 1970s. She continues to inspire generations with her groundbreaking art and activism. Here are 171 of her quotes:

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting. (Patti Smith)

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

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Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

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My mother answers all my fan mail.

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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

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Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

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My sunglasses are like my guitar. (Patti Smith)

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

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Freedom is... the right to write the wrong words.

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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

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

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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech,, November 17, 2010) (Patti Smith)

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.

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Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.

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How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they're gone?

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I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond.

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Occupation: American Singer
Born: December 30, 1946
Quotes count: 171
Wikipedia: Patti Smith

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