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    Patti Smith

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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. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #embrace #happy #i #i do #people

    I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #guitar #i #i can #intuitive #musician

    I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #appease #business #did #flawed #i

    I've always believed in having a sense of balance and stealth. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #balance #believed #having #i #sense

    I've always thrived on the encouragement of others. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #encouragement #i #others #thrived

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


    — Patti Smith

    #i #just #lot #prose #published

    If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #better #better singer #could #i #regrets

    In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #fact #i #in fact #painter #thought

    Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty. ↗


    — Patti Smith

    #artist #aspires #built-in #calling #duty

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


    — Patti Smith

    #gutter #i #maybe #paris






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    Did you know about Patti Smith?

    Smith has recorded a cover of Buddy Holly's classic "Words of Love" for the CD Rave On Buddy Holly a tribute album tied to Holly's seventy-fifth birthday year which was released June 28 2011. A box set of her work up to that time The Patti Smith Masters came out in 1996 and 2002 saw the release of Land (1975–2002) a two-CD compilation that includes a memorable cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry". In the winter of 2004/2005 Smith toured again with Nader in a series of rallies against the Iraq War and called for the impeachment of George W.

    On November 17 2010 Patti Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. Called the "Godmother of Punk" her work was a fusion of rock and poetry.

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