Patti Smith Quotes - Page 2

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.

I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it.

We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.

I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.

When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

Love is an angel disguised as lust.

Paths that cross will cross again

No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.