I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with. Patti Smith More Quotes by Patti Smith More Quotes From Patti Smith My sunglasses are like my guitar. Patti Smith sunglasses guitar An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. Patti Smith competition artist I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension. Patti Smith tension energy rooms All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful. Patti Smith wanted wonderful children I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment. Patti Smith adjustment states thinking In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre? Patti Smith zoos talking art It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him. Patti Smith men art fall ...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire. Patti Smith sadness garden letting-go Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through. Patti Smith light heart friendship Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not. Patti Smith mortals poetry-is remember I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern. Patti Smith rocks frustration stars I've always thrived on the encouragement of others. Patti Smith encouragement My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled. Patti Smith sibling war kids I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. Patti Smith chords rocks enough Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. Patti Smith grief grieving hands Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. Patti Smith news fellow-man men I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings. Patti Smith yearning turns new-year I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off. Patti Smith philosophy believe people No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist. Patti Smith artist doe facts The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out. Patti Smith rhythm memories art
