American - Musician | December 30, 1946 -
Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'
Patti Smith
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
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What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
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Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
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We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.
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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.
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An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
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Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
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