870 Quotes by Patti Smith

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

All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.

[Jimi Hendrix] dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn’t matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language. Eventually they would record this abstract universal language of music in his new studio.“The language of peace. You dig?” I did.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

Well I haven't fucked much with the past,But I've fucked plenty with the future.- Babelogue

I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can’t see today. Patti, I don’t know anything.

And then I walked out, straight through the twilight, treading the beaten earth. There were no dust clouds, no signs of anyone, but I paid no mind. I was my own lucky hand of solitaire. The desert landscape unchanging: a long, unwinding scroll that I would one day amuse myself by filling. I'm going to remember everything and then I'm going to write it all down. An aria to a coat. A requiem for a café. That's what I was thinking, in my dream, looking down at my hands.

-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.

A real prison breakfast" I said."Yeah, but we are free."And that summed it up.