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Top 450 Patti Smith Quotes (2026 Update)
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Patti Smith Quote: “As we headed back to Tangier we saw a shepherd guiding a camel with her calf. Rolling down the window, I called out: – What is the little one’s name? – His name is Jimi Hendrix. – Hooray, I wake from yesterday! – Inshallah! he called out.”

451. “As we headed back to Tangier we saw a shepherd guiding a camel with her calf. Rolling down the window, I called out: – What is the little one’s name? – His name is Jimi Hendrix. – Hooray, I wake from yesterday! – Inshallah! he called out.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one. I imagined that I felt the calling and prayed that it be so.”

452. “I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one. I imagined that I felt the calling and prayed that it be so.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “It was exciting just to stand in front of the hallowed ground of Birdland that had been blessed by John Coltrane, or the Five Spot on St. Mark’s Place where Billie Holiday used to sing, where Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman opened the field of jazz like human can openers.”

453. “It was exciting just to stand in front of the hallowed ground of Birdland that had been blessed by John Coltrane, or the Five Spot on St. Mark’s Place where Billie Holiday used to sing, where Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman opened the field of jazz like human can openers.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “The act of writing in real time in order to deflect, escape, or slow it down is obviously futile yet not entirely fruitless.”

454. “The act of writing in real time in order to deflect, escape, or slow it down is obviously futile yet not entirely fruitless.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “You made my day, Patti,′ he said as he hung up the phone. I can hear him saying that. I can hear it now.”

455. “You made my day, Patti,′ he said as he hung up the phone. I can hear him saying that. I can hear it now.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “All doots are open to the believer.”

456. “All doots are open to the believer.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “In all the world one may always hope to recapture something lost.”

457. “In all the world one may always hope to recapture something lost.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “How could I have nothing to read? Perhaps it wasn’t a lack of a book but a lack of obsession.”

458. “How could I have nothing to read? Perhaps it wasn’t a lack of a book but a lack of obsession.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “I resumed the life of a citizen. It took me far from the world I had known, yet Robert was ever in my consciousness; the blue star in the constellation of my personal cosmology.”

459. “I resumed the life of a citizen. It took me far from the world I had known, yet Robert was ever in my consciousness; the blue star in the constellation of my personal cosmology.”

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Patti Smith Quote: “I thought of Thomas Paine‘s words: these are the times that try men’s souls. Outside, the rain ceased but high winds remained. And what was truth remained the truth. It was the last day of the year of the monkey and the golden cockerel was crowing, for the insufferable yellow-haired confidence man had been sworn in, with a Bible no less, and Moses and Jesus and Buddha and Mohamed seemed somewhere else entirely.”

460. “I thought of Thomas Paine‘s words: these are the times that try men’s souls. Outside, the rain ceased but high winds remained. And what was truth remained the truth. It was the last day of the year of the monkey and the golden cockerel was crowing, for the insufferable yellow-haired confidence man had been sworn in, with a Bible no less, and Moses and Jesus and Buddha and Mohamed seemed somewhere else entirely.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “I have always hated loose ends... If I read a book or see a film and some seemingly insignificant thing is left unresolved, I can get remarkably unsettled, going back and forth and looking for clues or wishing I had a number to call or that I could write someone a letter. Not to complain, but just to request clarification or to answer a few questions, so I can concentrate on other things.”

461. “I have always hated loose ends... If I read a book or see a film and some seemingly insignificant thing is left unresolved, I can get remarkably unsettled, going back and forth and looking for clues or wishing I had a number to call or that I could write someone a letter. Not to complain, but just to request clarification or to answer a few questions, so I can concentrate on other things.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “Theirs was a story that could not resolve, only unravel.”

462. “Theirs was a story that could not resolve, only unravel.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “I can examine how, but not why, I wrote what I did, or why I had so perversely deviated from my original path. Can one, tracking and successfully collaring a criminal, truly comprehend the criminal mind? Can we truly separate the how and the why?”

463. “I can examine how, but not why, I wrote what I did, or why I had so perversely deviated from my original path. Can one, tracking and successfully collaring a criminal, truly comprehend the criminal mind? Can we truly separate the how and the why?”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.”

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

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “I felt connected to the modest peace offered with the fare, thinking about nothing. Just wisps of things, meaningless things, like remembering my mother once told me that Van Johnson always wore red socks, even in black and white movies.”

465. “I felt connected to the modest peace offered with the fare, thinking about nothing. Just wisps of things, meaningless things, like remembering my mother once told me that Van Johnson always wore red socks, even in black and white movies.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “So many moments relived, scrawled in notebooks and on paper napkins, punctuated by quantities of black coffee.”

466. “So many moments relived, scrawled in notebooks and on paper napkins, punctuated by quantities of black coffee.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.” I had written the line some years before as a declaration of existence, as a vow to take responsibility for my own actions. Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.”

467. “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.” I had written the line some years before as a declaration of existence, as a vow to take responsibility for my own actions. Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “I felt a fleeting pang in my heart for I knew that innocent phase of our life had passed.”

468. “I felt a fleeting pang in my heart for I knew that innocent phase of our life had passed.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “How quickly it had charmed me. I imagined it transformed. A place to think, make spaghetti, brew coffee, a place to write.”

469. “How quickly it had charmed me. I imagined it transformed. A place to think, make spaghetti, brew coffee, a place to write.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.” His manifesto as an artist.”

470. “I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.” His manifesto as an artist.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.”

471. “I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “I’m not afraid of terrorism at all. I’m afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.”

472. “I’m not afraid of terrorism at all. I’m afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.”

— Patti Smith

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