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Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.Called the "punk poet laureate," Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. Her most widely known song is "Because the Night," which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen. It reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978 and number five in the U.K. In 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.On November 17, 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. The book fulfilled a promise she had made to her former long-time roommate and partner, Robert Mapplethorpe. She placed 47th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Artists published in December 2010 and was also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. December 1946  •  Other names ਪੱਟੀ ਸਮਿਥ, پتی اسمیت
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Famous Patti Smith Quotes

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

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

Patti Smith Quotes about the world

“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)”

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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.”

Patti Smith M Train

Source: M Train

“Look around you, all around you
Riding on a copper wave
Do you like the world around you?
Are you ready to behave?”

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Rock N Roll Nigger, from Easter (1978)
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“Freedom is… the right to write the wrong words.”

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“We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

Patti Smith Quotes

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”

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“Jesus died
For somebody's sins
But not mine.”

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Gloria: In Excelsis Deo, from Horses (1975)
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“I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“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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Source: Early Work, 1970-1979

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

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Paths that cross will cross again.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“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.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

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

Patti Smith M Train

Source: M Train

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

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Writing is not some quiet, closet act.”

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“To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.”

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“Got to lose control before you take control.”

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“Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.”

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“Patti, did art get us?'
I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'
Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“He took twelve pictures that day.
Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said.
When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Time to travel, to acquiesce to fate.”

Patti Smith M Train

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“He spared the child and spoiled the rod
I have not sold myself to God!”

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Babelogue, from Easter (1978)
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“Life is filled with holes
Johnny's laying there in his sperm coffin
The angel looks down at him and says "Oh, pretty boy
Can't you show me nothing but surrender?”

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Land
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“People have the power
To redeem the work of fools
Upon the meek the graces shower
It's decreed the people rule.”

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People Have the Power, from Dream of Life (1988)
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“Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.”

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Patti Smith: Can You Hear Me Ethiopia?, Cohen, Scott, Circus Magazine, 1976-12-14 http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/intervus/761214ci.htm,

“She is a soldier. She will not be defeated.”

Patti Smith

The Immortals: The First Fifty, Manson, Shirley, Rolling Stone, 2004-04-15, Rolling Stone Issue 946 http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939214/the_immortals_the_first_fifty,

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