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Top 450 Patti Smith Quotes (2026 Update)
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Patti Smith Quote: “Certain books I loved and lived within yet cannot remember.”

451. “Certain books I loved and lived within yet cannot remember.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “I seldom visit people’s homes, for despite the hospitality offered I often suffer a feeling of confinement or imagined pressure.”

452. “I seldom visit people’s homes, for despite the hospitality offered I often suffer a feeling of confinement or imagined pressure.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “He had ignored nature and now turned to her for his salvation, and set about to make peace with her, bowing to her mysteries.”

453. “He had ignored nature and now turned to her for his salvation, and set about to make peace with her, bowing to her mysteries.”

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “It occurred to me looking around at all of your things and your work and going through years of work in my mind, that of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.”

454. “It occurred to me looking around at all of your things and your work and going through years of work in my mind, that of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.”

— 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.”

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

456. “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.”

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

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

— Patti Smith

Patti Smith Quote: “You don’t shoot up and you’re not a lesbian. What do you actually do?”

459. “You don’t shoot up and you’re not a lesbian. What do you actually do?”

— 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.”

460. “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.”

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

462. “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.”

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

— Patti Smith

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

464. “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.”

465. “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.”

466. “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.”

— Patti Smith

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

467. “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?”

468. “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.”

469. “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.”

470. “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: “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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