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
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.
rocks enough chords
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.
artist giving creative
The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
writing pursuit awake
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
flames feelings alive
If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.
children red-lipstick want
Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.