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Patti Smith

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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.


— Patti Smith


#hand #suffered #suffering #their #therefore

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.


— Patti Smith


#as far as #being #concerned #drag #far

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.


— Patti Smith


#constantly #i #i think #state #think

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.


— Patti Smith


#jesus #mine #sins #somebody

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.


— Patti Smith


#labels #resistant #traditionally

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.


— Patti Smith


#fellow #fellow man #good #good news #hope

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.


— Patti Smith


#doing #enjoyed #i #i always #songs

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.


— Patti Smith


#could #dreamed #having #i #my own

My sunglasses are like my guitar.


— Patti Smith


#like #sunglasses

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.


— Patti Smith


#freedom #me #punk #punk rock #rock






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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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