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
four hours life rhythm roll
You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
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I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.
belong died jesus mine sins
Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine - My sins are my own, they belong to me.
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I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the Christ child, and I set it to music, and the Vatican orchestra played the music.
came dip threw
I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn't dip it into more ink.
moved
I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.
feed
I get up, and if I feel out of sorts, I'll do some exercises, I'll feed my cat, then I go get my coffee, take a notebook, and write for a couple of hours.
constantly either imagination people terms
I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.
absolutely heard remember
I absolutely remember where I was when I first heard it. It got me through adolescence.
became girls member took
He just became a member of the family. My girls just took to him, and he took to them.
younger
My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.
lost present quite son
My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.
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My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
work
I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.