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
dream fall color
What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.
children choices flannels
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
love dream heaven
I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
art regret thinking
Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.' Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.
distracted
Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
whole knows universe
I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
memories glasses plates
I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates ...
perspective giving want
We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.
distance way separate-ways
We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.
mother sibling childhood
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
photograph concerned
Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
song writing hardest
Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.
song communication writing
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.
thinking feels
I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.