Patti Smith is a famous Musician from USA, he/she is 77 years old and still alive, born December 20, 1946.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism.
Our collection contains 33 quotes who is written / told by Patti.
"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand"
"In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot"
"An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God"
"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire"
"My mother answers all my fan mail"
"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"
"Horses pretty much broke as a record in England"
"First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor"
"Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man"
"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star"
"Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit"
"No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist"
"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty"
"Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine"
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag"
"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels"
"My sunglasses are like my guitar"
"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer"
"Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about"
"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth"
"I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story"
"Christianity made us think there's one heaven"
"Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more"
"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris"
"I never thought I was gonna live to 30"
"I like gettin' old"
"People have the power to redeem the work of fools"
"I've always thrived on the encouragement of others"
"I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment"
"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife"
"In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter"
"I always enjoyed doing transgender songs"
"An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch"
