Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth30 December 1946
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
kids class house
I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.
children nice night
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
thinking joy sorrow
I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.
beauty horse england
Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
children said our-children
We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.
sea
Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
long would-be enough
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
band psychedelic arabian
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).
believe hands mind
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
long enough
Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
survivor firsts
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
movie stars artist
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
new-york
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me. New York is the thing that perverted me. New York is the thing that converted me. And New York is the thing that I love too.
artist support sides
I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.