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
fashion artist cities
The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.
singers longevity wanted
I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
children believe sea
For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.
mistake simple feet
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.
black forests world
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
men creation adages
Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.
needs drink cosmology
We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.
happens
What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.
want right-now
I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.
dream art reality
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
successful rocks be-who-you-are
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
sex gender drag
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
guitar sunglasses
My sunglasses are like my guitar.
beautiful book world
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.