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Im not saying I wasnt flawed or amateurish. But you can never say

Im not saying I wasnt flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. – Patti Smith

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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. – Patti Smith

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communication
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No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist. – Patti Smith

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Freedom
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock n roll was asleep. – Patti Smith

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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. – Henry David Thoreau

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Im not a kid. You dont get in this business for anonymity. Its not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, Im kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family – their privacy. Thats what Im more protective of. – Hugh Jackman

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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. – Herbert Hoover

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Business

And then theres all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. Im always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle. – Shirley Manson

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Business

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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. – James Thurber

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Im a four star general in this thing, and you dont rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad. – Sam Elliott

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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit. – Conrad Hilton

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. – Joseph Cook

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