I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes. Patti Smith More Quotes by Patti Smith More Quotes From Patti Smith Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke-down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if not in the outside world. Patti Smith guitar children art I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is. Patti Smith drug alcohol causes Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. Patti Smith labels artist Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your responsibility is back again to your people. Patti Smith artist responsibility people I don't think," he insisted. "I feel. Patti Smith feels thinking I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far. Patti Smith creation realizing art As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child. Patti Smith intense kind children I hated the soup and felt little for the can. Patti Smith hated soup littles Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god. Patti Smith spoil spares children Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people. Patti Smith historical mind people What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. Patti Smith rocks two people I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible. Patti Smith sides want long The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded. Patti Smith happens Blessedness is within us all. Patti Smith blessedness I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me. Patti Smith not-interested trying people Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day. Patti Smith next-day concerts guitar It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe) Patti Smith hiding want When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep. Patti Smith wake-up rocks people Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine. Patti Smith just-kids sin jesus If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got! Patti Smith rocks ifs needs
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