870 Quotes by Patti Smith

I didn’t begin my life in 1975 with ‘Horses.’ I recorded ‘Horses’ in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.

Please stay forever, I say to the things I know. Don’t go. Don’t grow.

I’m going to promote myself exactly as I am, with all my weak points and my strong ones. My weak points are that I’m self-conscious and often insecure, and my strong point is that I don’t feel any shame about it.

It was February 14 and I was about to give my heart to a perfect cup of coffee.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin’, I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

Looking back, long after his death, our way of living seems a miracle, one that could only be achieved by the silent synchronization of the jewels and gears of a common mind.

I’m a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, ’cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I’ll still be there at six in the evening.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It’s just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.