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
believe cover djs job label lose music sing songs
I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't play that music. I will lose my job.' Well, lose the job and create a new job. If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
continue work
I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.
glenn listening morning work
I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.
concerns pop
I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.
jim love loved poetry work
I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.
expect hopefully meeting word
I don't expect a big crowd. But hopefully if this first meeting is interesting the word will spread.
adore architecture love people
People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.
appeals mainstream music
Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
baby bird
I was still a baby bird when I was 28.
francis last quite time
I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'
mohammed personally
Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
close exactly
'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.
barracks bought built dad factory house housing job money raised saved sort south temporary
My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
feels
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.