Patti Smith Quotes

I am the spring, the holy ground. Each tweet is a real Patti Smith quote from various interviews and appearances through time. (Unofficial)

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Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us...

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We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

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The dead speak but we as a people have forgotten how to listen. We hold them in our hands, they course thru our blood.

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Writing is what has sustained me.

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We are the true children of Frankenstein we were raised on electricity.

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Performing is pain is pure ecstatic cut with adrenaline paranoia and any white light one can shoot on stage.

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I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.

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Life is like a roller coaster. Its never going to be perfect—it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but its all worth it

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In mourning after the death of Lou Reed, one of the most important friends in my life. We'd better say so long, bye, bye, bye.

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Who beyond the performer is the most hungry for poetry in any form but the children the new masses and Lou KNEW it http://t.co/JqHiHaYk5o

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To be an artist—actually, to be a human being in these times—it’s all difficult. What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

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If you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.

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A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people, you just keep doing your work—because you have to, it’s your calling.

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If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

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Creative energy is one thing, having a great imagination is another thing, and the third thing is manual labor. Art is work.

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We’re living in a time that never existed before. This is the era where everybody creates.

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Protect your work, and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.

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Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Be concerned about doing good work.

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There’s no barrier between the reader and you.

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I'll take a page out of Michael Stipe's book and say, 'It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." We just have to do better.