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
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.
littles soup hated
I hated the soup and felt little for the can.
years house-of-cards three
Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.
photography thinking discipline
Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.
thinking heaven christianity
Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
people historical mind
Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.
return may portal
Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.
horse paris drawing
I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.