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
rocks done painting
Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.
perfect life-is-like moments
Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
doors possibility plans
If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.
book two inspired
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
cameras my-friends
...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.
sides loyal lovers
We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.
drinking writing drug
I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
taken our-generation rocks
What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm; you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally; it's great to look at - it's a package deal.
thinking perfection stuff
I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
jesus records firsts
I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
pie world
You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
men fellow-man news
Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
art hands creating
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
book writing shelves
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.