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
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.
philosophy believe people
I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.
wall thinking two
I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.
thinking states adjustment
I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
strong pesticides bees
I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.
remember poetry-is mortals
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
grief grieving hands
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
two world pockets
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
heart youth knows
Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?
artist stuff proof
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.