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Patti Smith
American
Musician
Born:
Dec 30
,
1946
Always
Life
Me
People
Work
You
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One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.
Patti Smith
Great
People
Goals
First
Photographs
Taking
Over
Goal
Want
Them
Might
Showing
Publicly
Started
Desk
You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
Patti Smith
You
World
Carve
Pie
Up
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
Patti Smith
Art
You
People
Will
Other
Relate
Hopefully
Fine
Something
Void
Because
Always
Hand
Transforming
Communicating
Create
Creating
Separates
The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.
Patti Smith
Hair
Wear
About
Comb
Performing
Liked
Always
Want
Decide
Whether
Thing
Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
Patti Smith
Music
Great
Spiritual
Political
Too
Jimi Hendrix
Television
About
Had
Sure
Content
Rock
Rock Star
Were
Version
Revolutionary
Dylan
Which
Bob
Bob Dylan
Included
Star
Hendrix
Images
The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
Patti Smith
Work
You
Creative
Yourself
Painting
Tools
Give
Gives
Shares
Drove
Like
Look
Him
Doing
Artist
Impulse
Moment
I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
Patti Smith
Library
Culture
Nothing
Else
Rural
Small
South
Jersey
Raised
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