870 Quotes by Patti Smith

You can’t make a mistake when you improvise.

It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life.

I wasn’t taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn’t writing anything.

You’re not a rock ‘n’ roll person four hours a day or even when you’re on stage. It’s become the rhythm of your whole life.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations – the sense of uselessness.

My mother was real and her son was real. When he died she buried him. Now she is dead. Mother Courage and her children, my mother and her son. They are all stories now.

Maybe I’ll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

I was horny, but I was innocent ’cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.

I’ve written a lot of prose. I just haven’t published it.