Patti Smith Quotes

I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

I have not yet begun to fight!

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

I don't intend to die.

I been in this game a long time.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Those who cling to the past won't give up without a fight.

You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

You may come and go, but the real test is to see how long one can manage to stay in the game.

You tell me I can't do something, I'm going to do it.

I take pride in staying in the game.

Wherever the fight is, I'm going to be fighting.

If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it.

In order to be great in this game, you have to be good for a really long time, and to be good, you have to constantly win.