Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) - Patti Smith
Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all. - Patti Smith
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. - Patti Smith
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. - Patti Smith
But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. - Patti Smith
Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book. - Patti Smith
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. - Patti Smith
I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future. - Patti Smith