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 league people
People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream.
guitar typewriters tools
I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.
self world rooms
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.
responsibility thinking artist
As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
easy found
He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)
thinking generations hopelessness
I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.
book rocks rock-n-roll
I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...
art strong believe
Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.
choices vision important
I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something as fleeting as fame and fortune. If you're presenting yourself in a way that important to you in communicating your vision, then so be it. No one should allow themselves to be exploited ever.
philosophy shapes world
These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.
fashion clothes world
I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.
artist doe facts
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
rocks punk punk-rock
Punk rock is just another word for freedom.
hands people vision
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.