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
want crafts improvisation
You don't want to OD on improvisation.
compassion irony moments
Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.
my-boyfriend
Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?
book oregon towns
I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.
music horny want
Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.
girl art fall
Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn his curls. He will be condemned and adored. His excesses damned or romanticized. In the end, truth will be found in his work, the corporeal body of the artist. It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to him.
views common-sense trying
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.
communication artist engagement
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
mother loss men
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
strong musician performers
I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
beautiful photographer my-favorite
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
artist work-ethic ethics
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
nostalgic persons
I'm not really a nostalgic person.
book childhood world
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.