I have spoken to a friend of mine. Actually, she was my background singer and she lives in New Orleans. I gave her a home today. I told her to move in with me because everything she ever thought of is gone.


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The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high ...
PATTI SMITH
I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I...
PATTI SMITH
I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he di...
PATTI DAVIS
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
PATTI SMITH
I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was ...
PATTI SMITH
We found consistently less than one microgram of accessible lead in these vinyl lunch boxes. That is...
PATTI DAVIS
[Acknowledging that the death of a former president of Reagan's stature would be] a big unwieldy one...
PATTI DAVIS
As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have t...
PATTI STANGER
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she&...
PATTI SMITH
I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you kn...
PATTI LUPONE
We recently did two benefits for a person with a brain tumor and at the first one, he was there. We ...
PATTI BROOKS
Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the a...
PATTI LUPONE
The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he c...
PATTI SMITH
I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. ...
PATTI SMITH
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Br...
PATTI SMITH
Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's wha...
PATTI SMITH
Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
PATTI SMITH
I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at me...
PATTI SMITH
A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and ro...
PATTI LUPONE
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The...
PATTI LUPONE
I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be ...
PATTI SMITH
Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
PATTI SMITH
We catered for 3,000 people. Three thousand!
ANGELO PATTI
The business just wasn't big enough for the three of us.
ANGELO PATTI
We made about $12 that day, which was pretty good back then. Harold Curry reached into the cash regi...
ANGELO PATTI
I don't stay in one discipline because it's more lucrative than another. In fact, the most s...
PATTI SMITH
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have...
PATTI SMITH
I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, los...
PATTI SMITH
I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. ...
PATTI SMITH
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merge...
PATTI SMITH
I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis a...
PATTI STANGER
I admire the kids being able to take this kind of pressure. They work for four years and everything ...
PATTI HOCH
It's nothing short of miraculous.
PATTI HOCH
I'm ecstatic over the two relays, especially the 200 free because that is our shot at state. It's se...
PATTI HOCH
I can't expect 13 girls with nine freshmen to be able to go out there and hold their own. I also don...
PATTI HOCH
For our relays, I was looking at the times they are swimming and comparing them to last year, and I ...
PATTI HOCH
For all my seniors, we've been mainly focusing on how we are going into the sectional. Everybody has...
PATTI HOCH
Oh, he's just trying to get an easier practice.
PATTI HOCH
We have good swimmers, but we go in down nine, eight or seven points before the meet even starts. Th...
PATTI HOCH
I appreciate what those guys are doing out there. I don't know anything about diving because my back...
PATTI HOCH
In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, b...
PATTI LUPONE
Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we gro...
PATTI STANGER
The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair c...
PATTI STANGER
Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's n...
PATTI SMITH
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who h...
PATTI SMITH
Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to ...
PATTI LUPONE
To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission thr...
PATTI DAVIS
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and...
PATTI SMITH
I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't m...
PATTI SMITH
Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opport...
PATTI ROBERTS