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    Patti Smith

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    It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171). ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #music

    But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #patti-smith #robert-mapplethorpe #art

    Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #poetry #life

    A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #continue #lot #me #pretend #pretending

    A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #aesthetic #children #choices #cloth #developed

    Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #jesus #mine #sins #somebody

    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

    #freedom #me #punk #punk rock #rock

    My sunglasses are like my guitar. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #like #sunglasses

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


    — Patti Smith

    #constantly #i #i think #state #think

    Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #desire #fiery #go #let go #never






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    Did you know about Patti Smith?

    Smith has recorded a cover of Buddy Holly's classic "Words of Love" for the CD Rave On Buddy Holly a tribute album tied to Holly's seventy-fifth birthday year which was released June 28 2011. A box set of her work up to that time The Patti Smith Masters came out in 1996 and 2002 saw the release of Land (1975–2002) a two-CD compilation that includes a memorable cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry". In the winter of 2004/2005 Smith toured again with Nader in a series of rallies against the Iraq War and called for the impeachment of George W.

    On November 17 2010 Patti Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. Called the "Godmother of Punk" her work was a fusion of rock and poetry.

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