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Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
- Patti Smith
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#Hope
#Man
#News
#Sacrifice
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.
- Patti Smith
#Enough
#Mission
#Music
#Poetry
#Rock
I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.
- Patti Smith
#Love
#New
#Poetry
#Way
#Work
I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.
- Patti Smith
#Being
#Family
#Hardest
#Mother
#Work
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
- Patti Smith
#Coming
#Communication
#New
#Through
People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.
- Patti Smith
#Architecture
#Hands
#Love
#Me
#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
#People
#Poetry
#Rock
#Two People
#Two
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.
- Patti Smith
#Bible
#Great
#Lust
#Poetry
#Sacrifice
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
#Medical
#Parents
#Serious
#War
#World
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
- Patti Smith
#Cheap
#Christmas
#Day
#Me
#Mother
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
#Duty
#People
#Poetry
#Rock
#Younger
Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
- Patti Smith
#Good
#Hope
#Man
#News
#Positive
I was raised Jehovah's Witness. I was in Bible school at five or six years old, but I wouldn't say that we were a religious family.
- Patti Smith
#Bible
#Family
#Old
#Say
#School
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
- Patti Smith
#Abandon
#Art
#Balance
#Dream
#Life
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
- Patti Smith
#Fools
#People
#Power
#Redeem
#Work
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
- Patti Smith
#Being
#Concerned
#Drag
#Far
#Gender
For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.
- Patti Smith
#Best
#Coffee
#Great
#Life
#Sky
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.
- Patti Smith
#Create
#Freedom
#Me
#Punk
#Rock
#Who
I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.
- Patti Smith
#Bee
#Death
#I Am
#Losing
#Terrorism
Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.
- Patti Smith
#Died
#Jesus
#Mine
#Sins
#Somebody
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
- Patti Smith
#Humanity
#Restaurant
#Sometimes
#Villain
As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
- Patti Smith
#Allies
#Been
#Sister
#Strongest
#Up
You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.
- Patti Smith
#Change
#Small Things
#Turn
#Water
#World
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
- Patti Smith
#Desire
#Go
#Let Go
#Never
#Sadness
My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'
- Patti Smith
#Look
#Me
#Says
#Style
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
- Patti Smith
#Hand
#Suffering
#Those
#Understand
#Who
We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
- Patti Smith
#Age
#Had
#Rage
#Time
#Tried
If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.
- Patti Smith
#Feel Good
#Feel
#Good
#Inside
#Will
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
- Patti Smith
#Artist
#Feel
#Freedom
#Reflect
#Work
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.
- Patti Smith
#Experience
#Grief
#Lost
#People
#Person
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