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Patti Smith

I like really hot coffee, not...

I like really hot coffee, not too strong.

Patti Smith 371 quotes
Patti Smith

I come from a working-class f...

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

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Patti Smith

Throughout my life, I happily...

Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.

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Patti Smith

As I go through life, I can s...

As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.

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Patti Smith

It's not uncool to worry abou...

It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

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Patti Smith

I like revisiting my early wo...

I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through any experimentation or new material. When I go see an artist, I want to hear the songs that drew me to them, so I do the same.

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Patti Smith

My mom loved rock n' roll. My...

My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.

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Patti Smith

I sang 'O Holy Night' with th...

I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the Christ child, and I set it to music, and the Vatican orchestra played the music.

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Patti Smith

My dad got a job in a factory...

My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.

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Patti Smith

What I wanted in life always ...

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.

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Patti Smith

I remember when the Bic pen w...

I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn't dip it into more ink.

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Patti Smith

I know what that tastes like,...

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

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Patti Smith

It was always my belief that ...

It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

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Patti Smith

You're not a rock n' roll per...

You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

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Patti Smith

I think we have a creative im...

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

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Patti Smith

I remember the first club we ...

I remember the first club we played in San Francisco. There were a lot of people on motorcycles standing around outside, and I had trouble getting in. I didn't have any ID, and the guy at the door wouldn't let me in, even though I told him I was gonna be singing in there.

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Patti Smith

I try not to give too much ad...

I try not to give too much advice, really, because people have to do their things their way. I got lots of advice when I was young, and I ignored most of it - the good and the bad.

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Patti Smith

I always wrote. I wrote every...

I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.

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Patti Smith

Of course, every artist has '...

Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.

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Patti Smith

I work to Glenn Gould in the ...

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

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