Patti Smith Work Quotations

I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.

I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.

I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

We work to support our partners to enhance their likelihood of success. Many partners within the network are doing quite well. When we enter these alliances we look to leverage the strength of our platform.

I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through any experimentation or new material. When I go see an artist, I want to hear the songs that drew me to them, so I do the same.

I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.