Patti Smith Quotes

"My sunglasses are like my guitar."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Guitar)

"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."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Life, Children)

"Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine."
- Patti Smith

"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."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Artist, Duty, Sense)

"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Paris)

"Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more."
- Patti Smith

"My mother answers all my fan mail."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Mother, Answers, 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."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Poetry, Thought, People, Duty)

"First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor."
- Patti Smith
(Related: First)

"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Desire, Sadness)

"No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Work, Artist, Fact, Freedom)

"People have the power to redeem the work of fools."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Power, Work, People, Fools)

"Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Time, Language, Writing)

"In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Thought, Fact)

"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."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Women, Being, Girls, Writer)

"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Suffering)

"Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?"
- Patti Smith
(Related: Dream)

"Horses pretty much broke as a record in England."
- Patti Smith
(Related: England, Horses, Pretty)

"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Art, Life, Dream, Balance, May)

"I always enjoyed doing transgender songs."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Songs)

"An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God."
- Patti Smith
(Related: God, Artist, Competition)

"An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Artist, Artists, May)

"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Artists)

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Being, Gender)

"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Artist)

"Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man."
- Patti Smith
(Related: God, Help, Man, Santa claus)

"Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Americans, Being)

"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."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Mother, Financial, Childhood)

"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."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Life, Daughter, Old, Play, Years)

"I like gettin' old."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Old)

"I never thought I was gonna live to 30."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Thought)

"I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment."
- Patti Smith
(Related: State)

"I've always thrived on the encouragement of others."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Encouragement)

"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Writer)

"Christianity made us think there's one heaven."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Christianity, Heaven)