American - Musician | December 30, 1946 -
There is hardly a place in New York that you can't walk a block and a half and get a cup of coffee. Believe me, I've been all over the world. There's no place like that but New York City.
Patti Smith
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What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.
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In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.
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We didn't have the phrase 'style icon' when I was young, but I have to say, I really copied Bob Dylan when I was younger: a little bit of Bob Dylan or a lot of Bob Dylan and the French symbolist poets - I liked how they dressed - and Catholic school boys.
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I like really hot coffee, not too strong.
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Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
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I've always believed in having a sense of balance and stealth.
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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
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More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.
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