I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important. Patti Smith More Quotes by Patti Smith More Quotes From Patti Smith I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll. Patti Smith rock-n-roll rocks musician I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women. Patti Smith strong men sex Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art. Patti Smith produce rooms art Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry. Patti Smith beautiful mean book I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it. Patti Smith stars mom artist I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life. Patti Smith teenager prayer home I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers. Patti Smith gender ancestry thinking A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper. Patti Smith zippers artist hands I never had any dates. I never really had any boyfriends. I was the girl who did the guys' homework. I was really crazy about guys but I was always like one of the boys. The guys I always fell in love with were completely inaccessible. Patti Smith crazy girl boys I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it. Patti Smith enjoy important thinking My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs. Patti Smith energy giving people I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit. Patti Smith hard-times stranger young People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti. Patti Smith hey mean people Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. Patti Smith guitar people thinking My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. Patti Smith beatnik ginsberg style I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me. Patti Smith style reading people All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars. Patti Smith role-models roles stars I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music. Patti Smith rocks writing thinking I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing. Patti Smith rocks writing trying I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms. Patti Smith painting paris gone
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