Patty Smyth Quotes

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Patty Smyth

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 26, 1957

We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country in the neighborhood - my father and all my uncles served, and most of them enlisted.

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I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.

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The more rocking, the better.

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When you have a different mother, you want to be in her world. Because in mine, I didn't feel like I fit in.

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Bios are always so dull and boring.

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Back when I first started with Scandal, I felt like I had to carry a lot of the weight because it was up to me to sell those songs.

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You can't keep doing the same things when you get married and have a family. You have to slow down. You have to be responsible.

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With a baby, you have to be responsible, selfless, and patient. I was never into those things. I got what I wanted. I did what I wanted. I didn't consider myself a patient person.

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I don't want to bore people with stories about being in rock n' roll and being a mother. Other singers do it. I can, too. I just do what I have to do. It's not that hard. It's just different.

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