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
francis last quite time
I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'
glenn listening morning work
I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.
continue work
I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.
call counsel love music people perform skills though
I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.
life roll
I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.
work
I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.
feels
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
love
When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album.
testing time
We are testing things all the time on the site.
remove request title
We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.
dressing gave good hated musical pancake
I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at memorizing, and it gave me a lot of anxiety. I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.
creative difficult greatest impulse love song suffering work
I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.
depended life record threw
We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.